In an online world where websites are often publicly accessible, the question of how and when a website owner can bring a claim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) when it revokes “authorization”...

Overview Various members of the Global Privacy Assembly’s International Enforcement Cooperation Working Group (IEWG) issued a joint statement voicing concerns about what it described as unlawful scraping of publicly available personal information. In its effort...

X Corp., the company formerly known as Twitter, has launched a multi-faceted attack on scraping of its platform, separately bringing three lawsuits against alleged scrapers of its site – John Does 1-4, Bright Data, Ltd.,...

The five-year dispute between hiQ Labs and LinkedIn over web scraping has come to an end. Around December 6, 2022, the parties reached a private settlement, and hiQ agreed to a permanent injunction requiring it...

For those following web scraping caselaw, the hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn Corporation case has been one to watch. While prior decisions largely involved a preliminary injunction, the federal district court in California has now ruled on LinkedIn’s remaining...

On remand from the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit again affirmed the preliminary injunction precluding LinkedIn from blocking access to public profiles on the professional networking platform (hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation). This latest...

The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled that people do not exceed authorized access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) when they merely access information on a computer for an improper purpose. ...

Photo credit: PixieMe – stock.adobe.com. In Facebook, Inc. v. BrandTotal Ltd., ad consulting company and browser extension provider, BrandTotal, failed to obtain a temporary restraining order against Facebook, which would have enabled it to continue scraping Facebook’s...

In a decision that reduces some risk associated with webscraping, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that violating a website’s terms of service cannot alone be the basis for a...

In the highly-anticipated decision in the hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn case, the Ninth Circuit upheld the preliminary injunction against LinkedIn, prohibiting it from barring hiQ’s scraping of public profiles from its site. In so doing, the...