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Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: If the Suit Fits

Character Technologies has been hit with two lawsuits, including a wrongful death suit (among other claims), in less than two months over its popular Character.ai chatbot. The first was filed in the U.S. District Court for...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Meta v. Bright Data Ruling Has Important Implications for Webscraping Activities by Investment Advisers

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On January 23, 2024, Judge Edward M. Chen of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in META PLATFORMS, INC. v. BRIGHT DATA LTD. (Meta v. Bright Data), granting Bright Data’s motion for...more

Polsinelli

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

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Facebook Brings Suit against Developers of a Browser Extension That Harvested User Data

In continuing its efforts to enforce its terms and policies against developers that engage in unauthorized scraping of user data, this week Facebook brought suit against two marketing analytics firms, BrandTotal Ltd...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Facebook Brings Suit against Mobile Marketing Firm for Siphoning User Data without Authorization

In continuing its push to enforce its terms and policies against developers that engage in unauthorized collection or scraping of user data, Facebook brought suit last month against mobile marketing and data analytics firm...more

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