Data scraping is not illegal on LinkedIn, but you must abide by certain terms and conditions before you can take action. LinkedIn is a social media platform that contains a lot of data about people ...

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 ...

A federal judge has handed down a mixed ruling in a long-running battle between LinkedIn and hiQ Labs, a defunct analytics company that scraped users' profiles. In a decision made public late Friday, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Weighing privacy rights against access to public data, a Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday wrestled with whether a 1984 law permits LinkedIn to keep its website off limits to a ...