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We have an enormous legal team that communicates constantly with end points to ensure they are aware of our scraping. And as I said in another comment, we store no results other than what is already available to anyone else using the web.

We've had this division for many many years, and before my time we paid another company to do this. There's no legal issues.

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Your legal teamn is in contact with them, but their security is actively trying to block you? That doesn't make sense.

Computer security laws are very broad. It doesn't matter if it's just a website that the public can access. If you're accessing it in a matter that they don't want AND you're aware of that, then I struggle to see how your lawyers can justify it.

> Computer hacking is broadly defined as intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/c/computer-hacking/

Hiding your user agent because you know they don't want automated retrieval of information is "without authorisation".

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