> Then of course there are people trying to make a business out of extracting your company’s data,
If I can do this by hand there's no legal reason I can't do it by machine. You can try to defend against it, I guess, but the second you start impacting your obligations to someone else (like disabling their account after they paid you) you are in the wrong.
Accesses and privileges given to you does not always extend to agents acting on your behalf.
Having a driver’s license does not grant someone acting on your behalf the right to drive on public roads if they don’t have their own license. And more directly it also doesn’t grant you the ability to use your autonomous driving software on public roads either.
And just because you have a license doesn’t mean you can drive any vehicle on public roads. It has to be street legal and you need a different license for 18 wheelers.
If I can do this by hand there's no legal reason I can't do it by machine. You can try to defend against it, I guess, but the second you start impacting your obligations to someone else (like disabling their account after they paid you) you are in the wrong.