June 14, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered an appeals court to reconsider whether job-search startup hiQ Labs Inc. breached the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by harvesting data from public LinkedIn profiles, in light of a recent ruling curbing the statute's scope.
June 26, 2020
Data analytics startup hiQ Labs Inc. has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a Ninth Circuit ruling that made way for the startup to scrape LinkedIn's publicly available information in order to resell it, arguing that the appeals court's reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to exclude viewing and gathering public information is correct.
April 28, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court is asking data analytics startup hiQ Labs Inc. to respond to LinkedIn's challenge of a Ninth Circuit ruling that cleared the way for the startup to scrape the professional networking site's publicly available information in order to resell it.
March 13, 2020
LinkedIn Corp. is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether it's illegal for a tech startup to "scrape" the site's publicly available information in order to resell it, calling it an important question that has divided lower courts and could impact the future of data protection on the internet.