The hiQ v. LinkedIn Data Scraping Saga Continues
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 CPW has previously covered the state of play for data scraping litigation in the context of hiQ’s and LinkedIn’s ongoing dispute. For an update on this litigation, read on below. As a reminder, data scraping is a mechanism of extracting data from websites (including websites not available to the public and accessible only to individuals with user accounts). The practices of Clearview which has been the subject of recent litigation are a prime example. Notwithstanding the clear privacy issues implicated by data scraping, there is no law specif...