[nnm]

It is commonsense to use the hardware/software authorized by your employer to do the work.

One side story. It is third party app that is not authorized by AA. Instead of get permission through a contract, the app developer scraped AA's data without AA's permission.

[Retric]

You don’t need specific permission to scrape data.

[TobyTheDog123]

Nope. You don't need permission to scrape publicly accessible data, and that's only on the legal side of things. Data behind any kind of login is not fair game. Apple also has rules against use of any scraped data you aren't explicitly authorized to access.

[Retric]

Apple is of course fine to prohibit whatever they desire for appearing in their store, but scrapping is a different issue.

Copyright etc could restrict copying information displayed on a website, but if someone can legally write down information via pen and paper they can see then they can scrape it. The process being automation doesn’t inherently matter.

[onphonenow]

If it’s your employers you do

If it’s an app on apples App Store you do

[hedora]

Source? The courts have consistently ruled the other way on the question of scraping.

If you then share confidential information with third parties your employer may (or may not) have a case.

[notahacker]

App screenshot on the appstore shows a list of names associated with a rota, presumably crew member names scraped from the airlines' password-protected crew portal.

It's not especially surprising airlines don't want unauthorised third party apps accessing and storing personal data from their intranets, even if the third party developer is very ethical about not leaking it to people without passwords and makes beautiful UX

[hedora]

It doesn't really matter if the airlines want them to scrape or not; it is their right to scrape.

[notahacker]

They don't have a right to scrape password protected personal data off an intranet, and AA also have the right to attempt to block an app or its scrapers regardless of whether the scraping is legal or not.

[onphonenow]

All the rulings here have enforced employers rights to their data. The google engineer using their login to scrape users private emails and then running it through a third party platform would be fired.