The Fight Against Data Scraping: Why LinkedIn’s Appeal to the Supreme Court Should Matter to Anyone Who Uses Social Media
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The Fight Against Data Scraping: Why LinkedIn’s Appeal to the Supreme Court Should Matter to Anyone Who Uses Social Media

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LinkedIn is challenging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s September ruling that the data aggregation and analytics company, hiQ Labs, Inc., can “scrape” personal data of users from LinkedIn’s platform, analyze the data, and sell its findings to employers.  Earlier this month, the Supreme Court granted an extension for LinkedIn to submit…