Web Scraping

The us. Ninth circuit of appeals court has basically proved web scraping as a legal process. Web scraping is where you automate the process of pulling content, or elements of content, from public facing web sites and then use it for your purposes. The difference between crawling and indexing and scraping gets to be a bit of semantics. For a company like clear view, which actually down loaded millions of profile pictures off a facebook to do things like teach its artificial intelligence thing how to do face recognition, it starts to get a little weird,. I just think there's a lot of questions here on both sides that on one side of the coin, i go, yes, i really want to be able to