LinkedIn and HiQ are embroiled in a legal battle that might decide the future of web scraping. The concept of data scraping from websites is a controversial one and the law that governs it is, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Scraping a public website without the approval of the website’s owner isn’t a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an appeals court ruled on Monday. The ruling comes in a legal battle that ...