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And they do control access. When you type in a url a request is made and the server responds. Linkedin controls that response and can send back whatever it lik
by wolco 9y ago
And they do control access.
When you type in a url a request is made and the server responds. Linkedin controls that response and can send back whatever it likes.
McDonalds can control who they sell a burger to but if I want to give my burger to a homeless man outside they shouldn't be allowed to stop me. In this case it's worse the place will tell me the price of a burger but won't allow me to tell the anyone else.
Once the information is public it has entered the public domain
- icebraining 9y agoLinkedin controls that response and can send back whatever it likes. That's exactly what this injunction prohitibts them from doing: "To the extent LinkedIn has already put in place technology to prevent hiQ from accessing these public profiles, it is ordered to remove any such barriers"
- shakna 9y agoWhich is why this is an anti-trust case. LinkedIn have freely provided public data to any competitor but hiQ. If they were preventing any company from taking the data, say by putting it behind a user login with licensing, it would likely not be under consideration.