hiQ is a company that "scrapes" public profiles from LinkedIn to package them for employers. This has drawn the Microsoft-owned company's ire. LinkedIn sent a cease-and-desist and got sued in return.

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, ...

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 ...

If you’re like most of the 500 million LinkedIn users, you probably spend a few hours per week on the site reading articles, seeing what your professional pals are up to and, perhaps, networking for a ...

What just happened? A US appeals court has reaffirmed an earlier ruling that states companies or individuals who scrape publicly accessible data from the web aren't breaking the law. The result ...

A federal appellate court has denied LinkedIn's request to reconsider a ruling that requires the company to allow its site to be scraped by analytics company hiQ Labs. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ...