US Court Rules AI Agents Scraping Web Data Do Not Violate Anti-Hacking Law

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that using AI agents to scrape public web data does not automatically violate the anti-hacking law, overturning an injunction against Perplexity AI by reasoning that agents act as an extension of the user.

2026-08-06 ~ 2026-08-06 · 2 related posts

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