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The Information Commissioner's instruction comes after it re-opened an investigation into the scraping of data from wi-fi networks in 2012, when American regulators found new evidence about the programme.
But whether or not AT&T put any pressure on the FBI, did the hack itself -- a scraping of data that was available through a security flaw -- warrant a criminal warrant to search Auernheimer's home?
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On December 12 Brian Krebs reported the first rumors of the attack, suggesting it consisted of a wholesale scraping of "track data," the data found on each credit card magnetic track.
Specifically they object to the storage of user credentials on the Power.com servers, the scraping of "proprietary data" from Facebook (user data), and other issues.
The contributing users discuss Google's policy of scraping web data versus physical and human data in relation to "robots.txt" files.
Earlier today, news broke that Craigslist has taken legal action against PadMapper and Craigslist API creator 3Taps — after an ongoing disagreement over the scraping of Craigslist data to use in a third-party service (3Taps became PadMapper's partner for data acquisition after PadMapper got the initial C&D).
Privacy activists have focused on the practice of many police departments of indiscriminately scraping data from thousands of cars and storing it indefinitely.
Apple turned on Top Charts after a number of developers and other third parties came up with alternative means of scraping the TV App Store data to determine the real-time rankings of the newly launched apps.
Tech-savvy traders have been scraping data out of new reports, press releases and corporate Web sites for years.
At Booz, Snowden was able to scrape vast amounts of data off the NSA computers, using what now appears to have been relatively old-fashioned technology, without anyone detecting what he was up to.
One thing the Commissioner did look into were reports, from the Snowden leaks, that suggested CSE was experimenting with a program that tracked travellers who logged onto airport wifi hotspots in Canadian and American airports, which could give them the ability to scrape untold amounts of data from their cellphones.
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