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Internet Cos. Urge 9th Circ. To Dump LinkedIn Data Appeal

Law360, New York (November 28, 2017, 4:47 PM EST) -- A group of internet data companies and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Monday threw their support behind a startup company's attempt in the Ninth Circuit to keep alive a preliminary injunction that lets it continue to scrape data from public profiles on LinkedIn.

In a pair of amicus briefs, the EFF, internet data collector Scrapinghub Ltd. and others argued that LinkedIn Corp. should not be allowed to wield the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as a means for keeping hiQ Labs Inc. from accessing publicly available information via automated "scraping" tools, and that doing so would quash competition and threaten open...

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