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HiQ v LinkedIn
by cma 3y ago
HiQ v LinkedIn
- falcolas 3y agoSeems like this was ultimately judged to be a breach of the user agreement, and they settled. At least, that's the last ruling noted in the wiki article. The SC also basically ruled that that HiQ did not have the right to scrape LinkedIn's website.
- cma 3y agoIt says they remanded it and the court it was remanded to affirmed its decision. "Its" is ambiguous, but it refers to the court it was remanded to, this is the source they reference: > In its second ruling on Monday, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its original decision and found that scraping data that is publicly accessible on the internet is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, which governs what constitutes computer hacking under U.S. law. https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/