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Data Scraping Update: ‘LinkedIn v. hiQ’ Answers Some Questions but Leaves Many More Open

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2022 provided companies with further clarity and insight regarding legal claims that might be viable to stop data (or web) scraping and those that likely won’t work. Data scraping continues to become an increasingly popular...more

Jenner & Block

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

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Circuit Court Denies LinkedIn’s Petition for En Banc Review of hiQ Scraping Decision

Last month, LinkedIn Corp. (“LinkedIn”) filed a petition for rehearing en banc of the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., No. 17-16783 (9th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019). The crucial question...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

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

LinkedIn Petitions Circuit Court for En Banc Review of hiQ Scraping Decision

On October 11, 2019, LinkedIn Corp. (“LinkedIn”) filed a petition for rehearing en banc of the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., No. 17-16783 (9th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019). The crucial...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Ninth Circuit Rejects Claim That Web Scraping Violates CFAA

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On September 9, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a highly-anticipated opinion in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation, No. 17-16783 (9th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019)....more

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LinkedIn Profiles And The Applicability Of The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act

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LinkedIn is a popular professional networking website with more than half a billion members. Many of its users, in an effort to enhance their networking capabilities, make their profile public and available to anyone to...more

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Consumer Protection In The New Economy: Privacy Cases In E-Commerce Transactions or Social Media Activities

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As we face mounting data breaches and fears over loss of privacy, the article notes that, “as the public opinion evolves and increasingly concludes that merely possessing private data puts consumers at risk, consumers may...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

District Court Issues Injunction in hiQ v. LinkedIn Scraping Case

On August 14, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits LinkedIn from implementing legal or technological restrictions on hiQ's access, copying, and...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

Nossaman LLP

Ninth Circuit Issues Two Recent Decisions Further Definining Liability Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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In July, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued two decisions by which it intends to clarify liability under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (“CFAA”). The CFAA imposes criminal penalties and...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

When Is Using a Computer a Crime? Rehearing Sought on Ninth Circuit’s “Distressingly Unclear” Answer

Facebook recently won a landmark victory in the Ninth Circuit against a company that accessed Facebook’s computers to help users manage their social network accounts. Now the company, Power Ventures, Inc., says that the...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Facebook v. Vachani – User Authorization Can Be Revoked By Service Providers

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently issued a decision that could have far reaching implications for the relationships between companies that provide online services, their customers or users, and third...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

2015 Trade Secrets Webinar Series Year in Review

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Throughout 2015, Seyfarth Shaw’s dedicated Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Competes Practice Group hosted a series of CLE webinars that addressed significant issues facing clients today in this important and ever-changing...more

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CFAA and SCA Do Not Prohibit Creation Of A Fake Facebook Page

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The defendants in a case pending in Chicago federal court were accused of contravening Facebook’s terms of use by accessing its computers in order to create a phony page and then using it to ridicule someone. In Bittman v....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Socially Aware - Volume 5, Issue 5 - August 2014

In This Issue: - Data for the Taking: Using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Combat Web Scraping - Google Glass Into Europe: A Small Step or a Giant Leap? - Drugs and the Internet: FDA Distributes New...more

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