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.

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 ...

Last week, the Italian data protection authority (the “GPDP”) opened an investigation after reports that a dataset allegedly containing data compiled from 500 million LinkedIn profiles and other ...

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Decision throws out previous ruling in favor of hiQ Labs that prevented Microsoft’s business networking platform to forbid the company from harvesting public info from user profiles. The U.S. Supreme ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) --- A federal judge signaled Thursday he is unlikely to dismiss LinkedIn’s countersuit against a company that scrapes data from its members’ public profiles to alert employers which ...

There's an old saying with social media: the users are the product. That used to mean that if you posted on a service like Reddit, then your data would be sold to advertisers, either individually or ...

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) recently concluded that scraping is lawful, but ...

A massive LinkedIn leak reportedly exposed data of 700 million users, making it the second large data dump following a similar episode just months earlier. More than 92% of LinkedIn’s 756 million ...