LinkedIn and HiQ are embroiled in a legal battle that might decide the future of web scraping. The concept of data scraping from websites is a controversial one and the law that governs it is, ...

LinkedIn was instrumental in shutting down a company scraping its information earlier this year. Now, it is going after ...

The authenticity of web scraping has been the subject of much debate. The question is, "is web scraping legal"? Web scraping is not a criminal offense. However, some ground rules must be followed ...

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 ...

Following up on our April 27, 2022 post, Data Scraping Deemed Legal in Certain Circumstances, the most significant data scraping lawsuit has finally come to an end. After six years of litigation, ...

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At the moment, the wrong laws are being used for the wrong reasons to protect inappropriate attempts at 'ownership' of data. Discuss! Web scraping is a contentious area, in that all companies need to ...

Is the data you share publicly on social networking sites like an announcement in a public place, where speech and information gathering are protected under the First Amendment? Or is it more like ...

In a case involving LinkedIn, a federal appeals court reaffirmed Monday that web scraping likely doesn't violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the ...

Scraping a public website without the approval of the website's owner isn't a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an appeals court ruled on Monday. The ruling comes in a legal battle that ...