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Ninth Circuit Limits CFAA to Digital "Breaking and Entering," Finds LinkedIn Likely Has No CFAA Claim Against Web Scraper

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On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed a California district court’s order preliminarily enjoining LinkedIn from denying hiQ Labs, a data analytics company, access to...more

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Ninth Circuit “Scraps” Old Construction of CFAA in Closely Watched LinkedIn Data Scraping Case

This past month, professional networking site LinkedIn Corp., was given more time to file a petition for certiorari challenging a Ninth Circuit finding that hiQ Labs Inc. (“hiQ”), a workforce data analytics startup, did not...more

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Ninth Circuit Preserves LinkedIn Competitor’s Data-Scraping Rights

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction forbidding professional networking platform LinkedIn from denying data analytics company hiQ access to publicly available LinkedIn profiles. HiQ...more

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9th Circuit Takes Narrow View of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in LinkedIn Data Scraping Case

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In an a recently published opinion, the Ninth Circuit answered the question whether “LinkedIn, the professional networking website, [may] prevent a competitor, hiQ, from collecting and using information that LinkedIn users...more

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Ninth Circuit Sides with Data Scraper and Affirms Preliminary Injunction Against LinkedIn in Data Mining Battle

In a narrow but notable holding, the Ninth Circuit recently held that the data mining company hiQ won the balance of hardships and identified sufficiently serious merits questions to warrant a preliminary injunction against...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

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

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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hiQ's preliminary injunction affirmed. A green light for data scraping or not?

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As we have previously discussed, claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuses Act (CFAA) are commonly asserted as a means of protecting online data from unwanted scraping activity.  The scope and application of the CFAA,...more

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