Fun story - many years ago I was working at a small IT services firm as a bizdev guy. The guy who owned it was a coke head who put me in very uncomfortable settings, multiple times.
So, I left and joined a competitor. Part of my job was creating lists of potential clients to pursue. At both jobs, I scraped Google and other open data sources to do so.
Previous employer freaked out when he found out I was at a competitor and filed a police report that I had stolen IP.
A detective interviewed me and, with a straight face, insisted that using Google to do this was stealing IP đź«
The case ended up going nowhere… nostr:note1h27fjquh6m4dkzvw2f43nzktw7hz2zgemrj0zhkmm7ql8adh48rstvgwxs
