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Data Scraping: In hiQ v. LinkedIn, the Ninth Circuit Reaffirms Narrow Interpretation of CFAA

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On April 18, 2022, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its narrow interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act’s (CFAA) “without authorization” prong in a data scraping dispute between hiQ and LinkedIn. The opinion upheld a...more

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Zoom Settlement Will Likely Mute Federal Class Action Lawsuit over Data Privacy

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After months of litigation, Zoom Video Communications has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a proposed class action pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #290 – 700 Million LinkedIn Users’ Data for Sale on Hacker Forum

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Although a security researcher has confirmed that LinkedIn users’ data, including full names, gender, email addresses, telephone numbers, and industry information is for sale on RaidForums by a hacker self-dubbed “GOD User...more

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Trove of Online LinkedIn User Data Fuels LinkedIn’s Anti-Scraping Position

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Last week, the Italian data protection authority (the “GPDP”) opened an investigation after reports that a dataset allegedly containing data compiled from 500 million LinkedIn profiles and other websites was available for...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: When Sharing Isn’t Caring

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Helpful Privacy Tips When Working from Home - It is a reasonably safe assumption that extended WFH will lead to increased TOSM (Time On Social Media). Unfortunately, when it comes to social media use protecting private...more

Sunstein LLP

Exploitation of Publicly Available Website Data May be Unstoppable

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Data scraping is a technique by which automated tools are used to extract data from a website and format the data for analysis. Many companies mine website users’ publicly accessible data in order to tailor products and...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Facebook Suspends Apps That Scrape Data From Its Platform Following Cambridge Analytica Scandal

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Facebook announced on September, 20th, that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps from interoperating with the Facebook platform alleging misuse of Facebook members’ personal data. This is a continuation of the Cambridge...more

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Data Scraping, at Home and Abroad

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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 advertising. The kind of information located and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

LinkedIn Takes the Role of Protector of its Users’ Privacy

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In a recent case brought in a California court, the professional networking service LinkedIn asserted its right to protect its users’ privacy expectations against a third party interloper that claims the right to collect...more

Dickinson Wright

Did Data Scraping Just Get A Tiny Bit Safer?

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Is it okay to scrape data from another website? This is a frequently asked question that almost always leads to an ambiguous and equivocal answer. Legal practitioners are quick to point out the risks of civil and criminal...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Proposed $13 Million Settlement in LinkedIn Privacy Case Awaits Court Approval

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Lawyers in a privacy class action against LinkedIn have urged the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California to give final approval to a $13 million settlement that was made public last year. The deadline for...more

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Three Trending Topics in IoT: Privacy, Security, and Fog Computing

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Cisco has estimated that there will be 50 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the Internet by the year 2020. IoT has been a buzzword over the past couple of years. However, the buzz surrounding IoT in the...more

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Coordinated Hackers Infiltrate 200 Targeted Employees’ LinkedIn Networks

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Cybersecurity researchers at the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (“Dell CTU”) uncovered a network of approximately 25 fake LinkedIn profiles that Dell CTU believes were used by an Iran-linked hacker group to establish at...more

Zelle LLP

That is SO last week - October 2015 #3

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Last week was a tough one for Uber, an exemplar of the “sharing economy.” Multiple lawsuits against the company are focused on the status of drivers as employees or independent contractors, and now the Oregon Bureau of Labor...more

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