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Privacy World
Federal Court Rules in Favor of LinkedIn’s Breach of Contract Claim after Six Years of CFAA Data Scraping Litigation
By Kristin Bryan, Julia Jacobson, Kyle Dull, Shing Tse
We have been covering the hiQ-LinkedIn data-scraping saga for several years now on CPW. (See previous posts here, here, here, and here). After well-publicized litigation that made its way to…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
DOJ Revises Policy for CFAA Prosecution to Reflect Developments in Web Scraping and Other Matters
On May 19, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had revised its policy regarding prosecution under the federal anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).…
Regulatory Oversight
Ninth Circuit Provides Guidance on Web Scraping
By Stephen C. Piepgrass, Ronald I. Raether, Jr., Peter Wakiyama, Mary C. Zinsner, Sadia Mirza, Abbey M. Thornhill, Edgar Vargas
On April 18, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation[1] in which the court clarified its position on an important topic: whether the common…
RopesDataPhiles
Ninth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction in HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation, Reasoning that CFAA Is Unlikely to Bar Access to Public LinkedIn Data
On April 18, a Ninth Circuit panel reaffirmed its holding that LinkedIn cannot stop hiQ Labs (“hiQ”) from scraping publicly accessible data from its website at this stage of the…
The IP Law Blog
The Continuing Battle Over LinkedIn Profiles and the Applicability of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Over two and a half years ago, this column analyzed a Ninth Circuit case titled HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation, in which the Court agreed with a lower court that…
Internet & Social Media Law Blog
Ninth Circuit Finds (Again) that Automated Web Scraping of Public Sites Is Legal
By Jon Jekel
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn that automated web scraping of publicly accessible websites does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Taking Cue from the Supreme Court’s Van Buren Decision, Ninth Circuit Releases New Opinion Holding Scraping of Publicly Available Website Data Falls Outside of CFAA
On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit earlier this week again affirmed the lower court’s order preliminarily enjoining LinkedIn Corp. (“LinkedIn”) from blocking data analytics company hiQ…
Privacy World
<em>hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn </em>: Ninth Circuit Indicates Tort-Based Claims, Not CFAA, Appropriate Legal Theory for Attacking Data Scraping Practices
Earlier this week, the Ninth Circuit, yet again, concluded that data scraping public websites is not unlawful. In hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., a case that has been ongoing…
Incontestable Blog
Data Scraping Claims: CFAA Out Contract and Copyright In?
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) imposes criminal penalties and establishes a civil cause of action against anyone who “exceeds authorized access” to a computer. 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2).…
Privacy World
Breaking News: Meta Sues Hong Kong Based Social Data Trading Ltd. For Its Data Scraping Practices
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has sued Hong Kong based Social Data Trading Ltd. for scraping data from millions of Instagram and Facebook profiles. Meta alleges that after it…