LinkedIn says it scans extensions to prevent invasive web scraping and calls the California lawsuits 'a house of cards built ...

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.

LinkedIn is facing two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browsers to determine which extensions they’re running.

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) recently concluded that scraping is lawful, but ...

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 ...

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 ...