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Pandora’s virtual try on tool leads to BIPA Class Complaint. LinkedIn advances breach of contract claims in data scraping case. Pennsylvania amends the Breach of Personal Information Notification Act. Quebec passes act to Modernize the Protection of Personal Information.

Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice.

Tech - As the world exponentially moves online, companies are amassing huge amounts of information. It’s no surprise that data collection and analysis function

On November 4, 2022, a California district court took up the parties cross-motions for summary judgment in the long-running scraping litigation involving social media site LinkedIn Corp.'s ("LinkedIn")...

On November 15, 2022, a California district court declined to dismiss a declaratory judgment action brought by a data scraper, 3taps, Inc. ("3taps"), against LinkedIn Corp. ("LinkedIn").

Editor’s Note: In the U.S. laws and regulation space, the California attorney general announced the first-ever CCPA settlement, the California Privacy Protection Agency raised...

Ninth Circuit reaffirmed 2019 opinion preliminarily enjoined professional networking platform from denying data analytics company access to publicly available profiles. HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation. Supreme Court had granted certiorari in this case.

On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit earlier this week again affirmed the lower court's order preliminarily enjoining LinkedIn Corp. ("LinkedIn") from blocking data analytics company hiQ Labs, Inc.'s ("hiQ") access to publicly available LinkedIn member profiles.

HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., Ninth Circuit affirmed its decision that LinkedIn may not rely on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA to enjoin hiQ from scraping member data from LinkedIn’s websites. There is no federal law that expressly prohibits the practice.

For years we've talked about the infamous Facebook lawsuit against Power.com. As you may recall, this was a key CFAA case against a...