{"id":1160644,"date":"2023-07-14T02:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T06:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1160644"},"modified":"2023-07-14T02:33:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T06:33:02","slug":"twitter-sues-four-unknown-entities-for-unlawful-data-scraping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1160644","title":{"rendered":"Twitter sues four unknown entities for 'unlawful data scraping'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter \u2014 or more precisely, its parent company X Corp. \u2014 has sued<\/a> four John Does who have allegedly “engaged in widespread unlawful scraping of data” from the website. They were described as “unknown persons or entities” in the lawsuit, which only mentioned their IP addresses. The lawsuit accused them of flooding Twitter with automated requests far exceeding “what any single individual could send to a server in a given period” aimed at scraping data. In a response to a tweet about the lawsuit, Elon Musk said these entities tried to scrape the entirety of Twitter in a short period of time and blamed them for the rate limits the website implemented<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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Several entities tried to scrape every tweet ever made in a short period of time. That is why we had to put rate limits in place.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Musk announced<\/a> in early July that the website was putting a strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day “to address extreme levels of data scraping [and] system manipulation.” Unverified accounts were limited to 600 posts a day, while verified (and, hence, paid) accounts were allowed to see 6,000 tweets. The defendants for this lawsuit were apparently to blame for those limits. “These requests have severely taxed X Corp.\u2019s servers and impaired the user experience for millions of X Corp.\u2019s customers,” the company wrote in its complaint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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X Corp. also described the defendants’ activities in the lawsuit as “unlawfully scraping data associated with Texas residents.” But as CNBC<\/em><\/a> notes, the US Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruled in 2022 that the scraping of data that’s publicly available online doesn’t violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). It was a landmark ruling that brought a long-running lawsuit by LinkedIn to a close. The business-focused social media platform filed a complaint<\/a> in an attempt to block its rival companies from scraping information visible on users’ public profiles.<\/p>\n

“Data scraping companies profit off the innovation of companies like X Corp. while harming X Corp. and compromising user data,” the company also said in its lawsuit. Twitter is now seeking $1 million in damages to make up for the defendants’ actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/twitter-sues-four-unknown-entities-for-unlawful-data-scraping-063302786.html?src=rss
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