The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) recently concluded that scraping is lawful, but ...
On November 15, 2022, a California district court declined to dismiss a declaratory judgment action brought by a data scraper, 3taps, Inc. (“3taps”), against ...
A recent decision in the battle between analytics firm hiQ Labs and social networking service LinkedIn poses “a grave threat to user privacy and the openness of the Internet,” LinkedIn argues in new ...
Decision throws out previous ruling in favor of hiQ Labs that prevented Microsoft’s business networking platform to forbid the company from harvesting public info from user profiles. The U.S. Supreme ...
A couple of years ago, LinkedIn was told by a US federal judge that it can’t block rivals like hiQ Labs from scraping personal data from public profiles. But on Monday, the US Supreme Court threw out ...
If ChatGPT starts asking you about your *shudder* endorsements any time soon, we now have at least half an idea why: U.S. users of “social media site for co-workers you don’t want to be actual friends ...
A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum. Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has ...
This past week, LinkedIn filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the Supreme Court to overturn the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster ruling in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., 938 F.3d 985 (9th ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) --- A federal judge signaled Thursday he is unlikely to dismiss LinkedIn’s countersuit against a company that scrapes data from its members’ public profiles to alert employers which ...