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17 Mar Ninth Circuit Panel to Work on LinkedIn Data Scraping Lawsuit

Posted at 05:02h in Foreign, News by Disini & Disini Law Office

Last Thursday, a Ninth Circuit panel pored over the data scraping case involving LinkedIn and HiQ, a firm which sells employee and job seeker information to various companies. LinkedIn attorney Donald Verrilli Jr. warned that upholding a previous ruling which says that LinkedIn cannot use...

17 Aug LinkedIn Loses Data Privacy Case

Posted at 13:00h in Foreign, News by Disini & Disini Law Office

Last Monday, a federal judge ruled against LinkedIn in a case involving the alleged illegal downloading of their user data by hiQ Labs. Judge Edward Chen pointed out that by blocking hiQ from obtaining professional data to feed its analytic engine, the Microsoft-owned professional networking...