An appeals court Monday ruled that web scraping—or automatically extracting information from websites and storing it for later use—is legal, protecting a tool used by researchers but dealing a blow to ...

The latest ruling in a high-profile case brought by LinkedIn case reaffirms that "hacking" and "scraping" aren't the same thing. Reading time 2 minutes The U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruled Monday ...

A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum. Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has ...

Following up on our April 27, 2022 post, Data Scraping Deemed Legal in Certain Circumstances, the most significant data scraping lawsuit has finally come to an end. After six years of litigation, ...

2022 provided companies with further clarity and insight regarding legal claims that might be viable to stop data (or web) scraping and those that likely won’t work. Data scraping continues to become ...

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...

Data scraping does not quite look like a data breach. But in cases of "mass web scraping," the amount of users' data leaked may trigger breach reporting notification obligations in some jurisdictions.

A federal judge has handed down a mixed ruling in a long-running battle between LinkedIn and hiQ Labs, a defunct analytics company that scraped users' profiles. In a decision made public late Friday, ...

Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what is now a precious commodity: Your privacy. Read now This case has been dragging on for almost five years.