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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

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. — Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. In November 2023, X corp. Recently, Bright Data had its motion to dismiss granted against X Corp. LinkedIn Corp. , citations omitted) X Corp. on all counts. Bright Data Ltd. , 3:23-cv-03698 (N.D. hiQ Labs, Inc.

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Court Dissolves hiQ’s Injunction Against LinkedIn–hiQ v. LinkedIn

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Specifically, it was “a ‘people analytics’ company that provided information to businesses about their workforces based on statistical analysis of LinkedIn members’ wholly public profiles.” ” In May 2017, LinkedIn sent hiQ a C&D and blocked its IP addresses. LinkedIn Corp. ,

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Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post)

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Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to prohibiting web scraping on their own properties, while taking liberal approaches to scraping data on other companies’ properties. The social media companies have no cognizable property right to assert in this content/data.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

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LinkedIn lawsuit started in 2017. On remand, the Ninth Circuit again says that hiQ is entitled to injunctive relief, because LinkedIn’s claims under the CFAA don’t neutralize hiQ’s colorable tortious interference claims against LinkedIn. Can LinkedIn enjoin hiQ’s scraping on non-CFAA grounds?

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LinkedIn dodges UCL claims because big businesses aren't covered plaintiffs

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LinkedIn Corp., 3, 2021) Plaintiffs, on behalf of a putative class of advertisers, alleged that LinkedIn overstates the level of actual user engagement with ads on its platform in order to charge premium rates to advertisers. A couple of months later, LinkedIn notified the affected advertisers and provided them with makegoods.

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Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors

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Based on the Complaint’s allegations, it appears the named Defendants – a private social media company and its legal department – are not subject to liability under Section 1983. LinkedIn Corp. LinkedIn Isn’t a State Actor–Perez v. YouTube Isn’t a Company Town (Duh)–Prager University v. Prager Univ.

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As Everyone Expected Years Ago, hiQ’s CFAA Wins Don’t Mean It Can Freely Scrape–hiQ v. LinkedIn (Guest Blog Post, Part 1 of 2)

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LinkedIn case. LinkedIn Corp. On the breach of contract claim, LinkedIn moved for summary judgment on the basis that 1) hiQ’s scraping of its site violated the terms of its User Agreement, and 2) hiQ’s use of “turkers” to make fake accounts breached the terms of its User Agreement. hiQ Labs, Inc. The opinion.