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 ...

A federal appellate court has denied LinkedIn's request to reconsider a ruling that requires the company to allow its site to be scraped by analytics company hiQ Labs. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Together, recent cases involving the career-focused social media giant paint a portrait of an online data landscape being reshaped by technology, increasingly at speeds that challenge companies to ...

What just happened? A US appeals court has reaffirmed an earlier ruling that states companies or individuals who scrape publicly accessible data from the web aren't breaking the law. The result ...

Is the data you share publicly on social networking sites like an announcement in a public place, where speech and information gathering are protected under the First Amendment? Or is it more like ...

In a case involving LinkedIn, a federal appeals court reaffirmed Monday that web scraping likely doesn’t violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the ...

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