Legality and ethics of web scraping

Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages

  Krotov, Vlad ^a   Silva, Leiser ^b  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Ethics; Law; Web crawling; Web data; Web scraping

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL; COMMON PRACTICES; ETHICS; TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES; WEB CRAWLING; WEB DATA; WEB SCRAPINGS;

WEB CRAWLER;

EID: 85054204456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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