LinkedIn says a court ruling strengthens its position against profile scraping, unauthorized data use and fake accounts.

On November 15, 2022, a California district court declined to dismiss a declaratory judgment action brought by a data scraper, 3taps, Inc. (“3taps”), against ...

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 ...

Mining publicly accessible online data—a tactic used by data aggregators to compile information and by sourcers to unearth candidate leads—is legal, a U.S. appeals court has ruled for the second time.

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.

LinkedIn emerged victorious in a nearly six-year-old lawsuit against hiQ Labs for data scraping. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of the professional ...

Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. LinkedIn is suing a company it claims used a network of millions of fake accounts to scrape data from its members and ...

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 ...

Siding with LinkedIn, a federal judge in San Francisco on Monday lifted a 2017 order that required the company to allow analytics shop hiQ Labs to scrape users' profiles. The text of U.S. District ...