Author(s)

Xingyu Zhao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China

Corresponding Author

Xingyu Zhao

ABSTRACT

In the era of digital economy, due to the lack of mature and effective data access regulations in our country, the large-scale scraping and utilization of corporate public data have led to a severe expansion of criminal liability. To balance corporate data control and circulation, this can be approached by focusing on the legal interests protected by data crime legislation, shifting the legal interests safeguarded by criminal law from "data confidentiality" to "data utilization security",  thereby assigning new connotations to the legal interest of "data security" in the digital economy. The criminal regulation of corporate data scraping should establish a "permission-centric" data access framework, decriminalizing non-malicious scraping of corporate public data to align with the developmental needs of the digital economy.

KEYWORDS

Web crawler, data security interests, access rights, public data

CITE THIS PAPER

Xingyu Zhao. Criminal Regulation of Scraping Corporate Data in the Era of Digital Economy. Science of Law Journal (2026) Vol. 5: 1-9. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.23977/law.2026.050101.

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