Web Scraping
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September 11, 2019
Ninth Circuit Rules that Scraping a Public Website is Likely Not a CFAA Violation
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...
Marc Zwillinger, Stacey Brandenburg, Zach Lerner
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October 25, 2017
CFPB Issues Consumer Protection Principles for Consumer-Authorized Financial Data Sharing and Aggregation
After much anticipation, the CFPB released guidance on October 20, 2017 regarding the consumer protection implications of financial data sharing and aggregation services. In these new principles, the CFPB expresses strong support for such offerings,...
Marc Zwillinger, Austin Mooney
