Collaborate Disseminate
It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does. Continue reading Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA. Continue reading LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules
Scraping public data from a website without the website’s authorization is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a U.S. federal court ruled Monday, limiting a U.S. anti-hacking law that academics have criticized for allowing broad legal action against innocuous activity. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday refused to overturn a preliminary injunction that required professional networking site LinkedIn to allow talent management startup hiQ Labs to gather data from users’ public profiles. Microsoft-owned LinkedIn had installed technical safeguards to stop hiQ from sweeping up data on members until a court in 2017 ordered LinkedIn to stop blocking that automated collection. LinkedIn appealed, alleging hiQ had broken CFAA, among other things, by using LinkedIn data in a way LinkedIn did not intend. “LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their […]
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