Hannah Crowther

Bristows

Hannah Crowther's practice involves advising on a wide variety of data protection issues, ranging from enterprise-wide General Data Protection Regulation compliance projects and Binding Corporate Rules, to responding to individual subject access requests or complaints.

Hannah's practice includes a significant amount of contentious work, advising clients on managing data breaches and investigations by the UK Information Commissioner and other EU Data Protection Authorities. She is also experienced in data protection litigation, assisting with cases before the UK Court of Appeal and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Hannah regularly advises her clients in relation to their marketing initiatives and compliance with the UK and EU rules on direct marketing.

Practice Area

Panel

Contributing Author

Qualified Year

2012

Membership

IAPP

Education

BA (Hons) Law, Oxford University
Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School

1 Contributions by Hannah Crowther

PRACTICE NOTES

Web crawling, indexing, caching and scraping: UK legal issues for website operators—copyright, database right, website terms, data protection, robots.txt, Computer Misuse Act, and post-Brexit/EU considerations

This Practice Note sets out how intellectual property and related rights, together with data protection duties, operate in the setting of web crawling, indexing, caching and scraping, viewed from a website operator’s standpoint. An explanation of the terminology The principal concepts of crawling, indexing, caching and scraping are outlined below. Crawling Web crawling is the activity whereby automated programmes (often called ‘bots’, ‘spiders’ or simply ‘web crawlers’) are deployed to traverse and read information across the web. One well-known crawler is Googlebot, which Google uses to copy web pages onto its servers; Google then indexes them (see the section on Indexing) to support searching of the internet. Website operators often provide ‘sitemaps’ (an XML file listing all pages on a site) to assist and enhance search engines’ crawling. Crawlers can also be put to other uses such as ‘scraping’ (see the section on ‘Scraping’) or collecting email addresses to send unsolicited emails (i.e. spamming). In addition to search engines, web crawling is also utilised by meta-sites,...

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