A company that previously tussled with Craigslist over the right to scrape data from public websites wants a federal judge to declare that LinkedIn can’t stop it from systematically scouring user ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

LinkedIn cannot block San Francisco-based tech startup HiQ from collecting information from public profiles of the social network’s users, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. Microsoft-owned ...

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 ...

It looks as though Facebook isn't the only online platform dealing with the fallout from a massive user data breach. Following reports of a data breach that includes information from 500 million ...

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 ...