The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brought by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal information ...

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 common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn ... the discussion. Web scraping is ...

Last month we reported a LinkedIn ... the web service for legitimate purposes, and use it to grab large quantities of data. It’s controversial because, on the one hand, those doing the scraping ...