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Ninth Circuit vacates Amazon injunction; AI agent logs emerge as eDiscovery issue

Editor’s Note: A user who sends an AI agent shopping is the one accessing the store, under both the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California’s CDAFA. That is the Ninth Circuit’s Aug. 4 answer, on a. . .
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August 11, 2026
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Ninth Circuit vacates Amazon injunction; AI agent logs emerge as eDiscovery issue
WHAT HAPPENED
Ninth Circuit vacates Amazon injunction; AI agent logs emerge as eDiscovery issue. Editor’s Note: A user who sends an AI agent shopping is the one accessing the store, under both the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California’s CDAFA. 4 answer, on a preliminary record, in Amazon’s case against Perplexity, and with it the court vacated the injunction that had restricted Perplexity’s Comet Assistant on Amazon. The panel weighed Amazon’s argument that an autonomous Assistant made the access Perplexity’s own and rejected it for this architecture, finding the remaining injunction factors wanting as well. Control tests, Stored Communications Act limits and preservation mechanics all meet a data source the standard instruments do not name.
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