In 2017, the federal district court for the Northern District of California enjoined LinkedIn from blocking workplace analytics company hiQ from its site, finding that data scraping from public-facing websites did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”). LinkedIn appealed and in 2020 the Ninth Circuit affirmed: [The CFAA’s] prohibition on accessing a…
Last fall, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling enjoining LinkedIn from blocking hiQ from scraping data from its site finding that hiQ’s scraping of data from LinkedIn users’ public profiles did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”). In Sandig v. Barr, academic researchers who intend to test whether employment websites…
Episodes 3 and 4 for Internet Traffic Kings have dropped. Episode 3 features Scott Richter, founder of Media Breakaway who now operates The Big Jackpot slot channel on YouTube. In this episode, I discuss cybersecurity issues relating to working at home during the COVID crisis and the COVID scams. Episode 4 features Rick Bennick, President…
In a major David v. Goliath victory, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed a lower court ruling enjoining LinkedIn from blocking hiQ from scraping data from its site. The key issue in the dispute was whether hiQ’s scraping of data from LinkedIn users’ public profiles violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) since…
Four very closely watched cases in separate areas of the law will be argued within a 50-day period that ends April 17th. Each case could yield a very significant ruling impacting internet law. February 27: United States v. Microsoft The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard argument in a dispute over a federal criminal subpoena for…
CLBR #270: Venkat, Data Scraping and Daily Stormer Focal Law Group’s Venkat Balasubramani joins us to discuss two recent developments: Dating Scraping after the hiQ Labs Decision The decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v LinkedIn, Inc., No. 3:17-cv-03301-EMC (N.D. Cal. Aug. 14, 2017) in which the court enjoined LinkedIn from blocking access to publicly available…
A major decision on data scraping and blocking access to publicly available information on the web came this week in hiQ Labs, Inc. v LinkedIn, Inc., No. 3:17-cv-03301-EMC (N.D. Cal. Aug. 14, 2017). The decision enjoined LinkedIn from blocking access to its service.
craigslists Wins Again Classified megasite craiglists won another victory in its fight to block 3Taps from aggregating and republishing craigslist ads. As set forth in the craiglists complaint, 3Taps copies (or “scrapes”) all content posted to craigslist in real time, directly from the craigslist website; markets a “craigslist API” to allow third parties to access…
Websites and Bloggers Targeted By Newspaper Chain; States Split on Shield Law Stevens Media, through a Nevada company known as Right haven, LLC, has filed approximately 11 copyright infringement lawsuits against bloggers and websites. Stevens Media, which owns Newspapers in 9 states including its flagship the Las Vegas Review , has assigned copyrights to some…
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