Discuss whether you think the statute ought to prohibit (either by criminal penalty or by a civil right of action as in hiQLabs) the kind of data scraping by bot that hiQLabs, researchers, and journalists conducting.If not, explain why not and suggest how companies can protect the data they make available to their users from unapproved (by them) automated collection by other companies, researchers, journalists, and others.Finally, predict how the Ninth Circuit might rule on remand for reconsideration in light of Van Buren.

"Supreme Court Revives LinkedIn Case."https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/14/supreme-court-revives-linkedin-bid-to-protect-user-data-from-web-scrapers/