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Data Scraping
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New Media and Technology Law Blog
hiQ v. LinkedIn Redux? Ninth Circuit Decision Tested in New Case
UPDATE: On October 14, 2019, the parties entered into a Joint Stipulation dismissing the case, with prejudice. It appears from some reports that Stackla’s access to Facebook has been reinstated as…
Socially Aware Blog
Ninth Circuit’s LinkedIn Decision Does Not Greenlight the Unauthorized Web Scraping of Public Websites
By Michael A. Jacobs, J. Alexander Lawrence
A recent decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a dispute between LinkedIn and hiQ Labs has spotlighted the thorny legal issues involved in unauthorized web scraping of…
Security, Privacy and the Law
Data Scraping, at Home and Abroad
Data scraping is a technique where information on one platform is exported onto another. The practice is widespread and is used for all sort of reasons, like market analysis or…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Is There an Expectation of Privacy for Public Social Media Profiles?
By Odia Kagan
If your social media profile is public … do you really have an expectation of privacy in the information it contains? The United States' Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
In Blockbuster Ruling, Ninth Circuit Affirms hiQ Injunction — CFAA Claim Likely Not Available for Scraping Publicly Available Website Data
In a ruling that is being hailed as a victory for web scrapers and the open nature of publicly available website data, the Ninth Circuit today issued its long-awaited opinion…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
French Regulator Fines Auto Insurance Company for Failing to Prevent Web Crawling
By Odia Kagan
Web crawling and data protection: CNIL has issued a 180,000 EUR fine against a provider of automobile insurance policies for failure to adequately protect data in violation of GDPR, specifically…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Ticketmaster Reaches Settlement with Ticket Broker over Unauthorized Use of Automated Bots
In early July, Ticketmaster reached a favorable settlement in its action against a ticket broker that was alleged to have used automated bots to purchase tickets in bulk, thus ending…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Web Scraping Decisions Consider Contract Cause of Action
Two recent web scraping disputes highlight some important issues regarding whether a website owner may successfully allege a breach of contract action against a commercial party that has scraped website…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
CFAA Claim Dismissed in Scraping Suit, While Contract Claim Survives
This month, an Illinois district court considered another in the series of web scraping disputes that have been working their way through our courts. In this dispute, CouponCabin, Inc. v.…
Inside Privacy
Polish Supervisory Authority issues GDPR fine for data scraping without informing individuals
By Kristof Van Quathem, Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses
On March 26, 2019, the Polish Supervisory Authority (“SA”) issued a fine of around €220,000 against a company that processed contact data obtained from publicly available sources without informing the…