On November 4, 2022, a California district court took up the parties cross-motions for summary judgment in the long-running scraping litigation involving social media site LinkedIn Corp.’s (“LinkedIn” ...

Siding against LinkedIn, a federal appellate panel has again upheld an order requiring the company to allow analytics firm hiQ Labs to scrape publicly available data. The ruling marked the second time ...

A federal appeals court on Monday said that LinkedIn cannot block hiQ Labs, a talent management startup, from scraping public data from LinkedIn member profiles. The case could have implications for ...

Last week, the Italian data protection authority (the “GPDP”) opened an investigation after reports that a dataset allegedly containing data compiled from 500 million LinkedIn profiles and other ...

LinkedIn can't rely on a 33-year-old anti-hacking law to prevent the analytics firm HiQ Labs from mining data, a federal appellate court ruled Monday. The ruling, issued by a three-judge panel of the ...

Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what is now a precious commodity: Your privacy. Read now This case has been dragging on for almost five years.

The latest ruling in a high-profile case brought by LinkedIn case reaffirms that "hacking" and "scraping" aren't the same thing. Reading time 2 minutes The U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruled Monday ...

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 ...