Why would scraping have an unlawful connotation? I thought US courts have ruled scraping to be allowed.

"scraping" is being used in two ways

1. Scraping a website, by anyone, allowed by courts if it is publicly accessible

2. "Scraping" of data, by the government, from various sources into a centralized database in partnership with Palantir. It's a worse version of the "Patriot" Act