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Ninth Circuit Finds (Again) that Automated Web Scraping of Public Sites Is Legal

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 Act (CFAA), even if the website owner...more

Troutman Pepper

CCPA’s Employee and Business-to-Business Information Exemptions Extended Until At Least January 1, 2022

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The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) went into effect January 1, 2020. While the CCPA was amended in October of 2019 to exempt certain employment and personal information involved in business-to-business (B2B)...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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Compilation of Public Data Can be Trade Secret

A recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision confirmed that data derived from a compilation of publicly available information can constitute a protectable trade secret, particularly when a proprietary process is used to...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

NLRB Regional Directors’ Formal Unfair Labor Practices Complaints to be Reported to Federal Database

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The National Labor Relations Board has stated that it will report to a federal database all unfair labor practice complaints issued by its Regional Directors beginning July 1, 2016, in order to comply with “Fair Pay and Safe...more

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