LinkedIn and hiQ Labs agreed to a consent judgment and permanent injunction to resolve all data scraping related claims after six years of litigation. This news follows last month’s summary judgment win by LinkedIn on its breach of contract claim against hiQ, based on a finding that hiQ’s data scraping and use of fake profiles violated LinkedIn’s user agreements.
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We have been covering the hiQ-LinkedIn data-scraping saga for several years now on CPW. (See previous posts here, here, here, and here).
After well-publicized litigation that made its way to the Supreme Court and back again, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled[1] that the provisions of a website user agreement that prohibit anti-scraping and fake profiles are enforceable in a breach of contract claim. Businesses should take note and ensure that their own conduct enforces their terms and conditions in order to prevent violators from successfully claiming affirmative defenses. If a business knows of a violation, and wants to have enforceable terms, it should pursue remedying that violation.Continue Reading Federal Court Rules in Favor of LinkedIn’s Breach of Contract Claim after Six Years of CFAA Data Scraping Litigation
This week a federal judge in Illinois granted final approval to a $92 million settlement to resolve TikTok privacy multidistrict litigation. In Re: Tiktok, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation (Case: 1:20-cv-04699). This case is notable for both its large class size and resolution of two dozen privacy litigations which had been previously filed against TikTok and
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Connecticut General Assembly Passes Comprehensive Privacy Bill
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Earlier this week, the Ninth Circuit, yet again, concluded that data scraping public websites is not unlawful. In hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., a case that has been ongoing for nearly five years, the Ninth Circuit affirmed its earlier decision that LinkedIn may not rely on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”)
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has sued Hong Kong based Social Data Trading Ltd. for scraping data from millions of Instagram and Facebook profiles. Meta alleges that after it blocked Instagram and Facebook access to Social Data Trading, the company continued to surreptitiously pull profile information from both websites. Meta alleges that Social Data
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