Scraping a public website can still be “unauthorised access.”
Public pages are not always a free pass. Terms of use, rate limits, login walls, and how the API is built can still frame what a competitor’s bot did as unauthorised use of a computer resource — not “research.” A price-list scrape that looks clever in a product meeting can look different when the complaint reads access, not curiosity.
Visible on the internet.
Not always lawful to harvest.
Educational note. This Insight is for awareness relating to cyber law and digital procedure. It is not legal advice and does not create an advocate–client relationship. Series: Digital disputes, as Indian courts actually see them.