It looks more like an ethical argument than a legal one. I don't understand how this data would be protected under US law. Can someone explain if you think otherwise?
Is the issue that the data was scraped? Or is the issue Google appropriated the scraped data for use in their search results?
From my perspective it just looks like a bad business model: spend a lot of time and effort estimating net worth, and then publish it on the open web. Publicly available data can be freely and legally scraped (and I wouldn't want it any other way): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...
Is the issue that the data was scraped? Or is the issue Google appropriated the scraped data for use in their search results?
From my perspective it just looks like a bad business model: spend a lot of time and effort estimating net worth, and then publish it on the open web. Publicly available data can be freely and legally scraped (and I wouldn't want it any other way): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...