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LinkedIn battles scraping claims by hiQ and 3taps as appeals court prepares to consider landmark 'scraping' case

By Mike Swift ( July 15, 2021, 21:26 GMT | Insight) -- With the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit poised to revisit a landmark 2019 ruling on the legality of online “data scraping” — a ruling that had allowed the autonomous harvesting of public profile data from LinkedIn — a second company seeking to scrape LinkedIn data agreed today to forestall its complaint until the appeals court acts.With the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit poised to revisit a landmark 2019 ruling on the legality of online “data scraping” — a ruling that had allowed the autonomous harvesting of public profile data from LinkedIn — a second company seeking to scrape LinkedIn data agreed today to forestall its complaint until the appeals court acts....

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