11th Circuit Addresses Trade Secret Misappropriation & Web/Data Scraping in High-Tech Corporate Espionage Case - Compulife v. Newman Part II
Compulife Software Inc. v. Newman , No. 18-12004, 2020 WL 2549505 (11th Cir. May 20, 2020) Topic: Trade Secrets & Misappropriation Takeaways: Publicly available data obtained through large-scale data scraping hack of Compulife's system should not have been considered on an individual piece-by-piece basis of the insurance quote data obtained, but rather the aggregate block of information obtained when considering an improper means and trade-secret appropriation analysis. A site's lack of usage restriction regarding publicly available information does not automatically make Data Scraping through robotic means proper. Court generally opines that using a bot to collect "infeasible amounts" of data through data/web scraping may be improper means. This is Part II to the discussion of Compulife Software Inc. v. Newman . Part I, addressing the Copyright aspect of this case, is available at: https://tennesseetechnologylaw.blogspot.com/2020/05/abstr...