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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...