Court Dissolves hiQ’s Injunction Against LinkedIn–hiQ v. LinkedIn
…week] Prior Coverage of hiQ v. LinkedIn Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn Ninth Circuit Says LinkedIn Wrongly Blocked HiQ’s Scraping Efforts LinkedIn Enjoined…
More Evidence of the CFAA Post-Van Buren/hiQ Jurisprudential Anarchy (Guest Blog Post)
…scraping a hard-to-find URL on AT&T’s web page. The conviction was eventually vacated, but the prosecution itself was seen as a low point (along with the infamous Aaron Swartz prosecution)…
Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273, The Age-Appropriate Design Code Act)
…scraping content or posting violative content, does this provision require businesses to sue the consumer for breach of contract? More generally, this provision directly overlaps AB 587, which requires businesses…
Can Facebook Stop Data Snarfers?–Meta v. BrandTotal
I refer to “data snarfers” as businesses that aggregate (via scraping or APIs) lots of sensitive online personal information to offer analytics, business/competitive intelligence, and similar services. Academic researchers can…
Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn
…QVC Can’t Stop Web Scraping–QVC v. Resultly (Forbes Cross-Post) Multiple Listing Service Gets Favorable Appellate Ruling in Scraping Lawsuit Anti-Scraping Lawsuits Are Going Crazy in the Real Estate Industry (Catch-Up…
Database Access After Failed Negotiations Didn’t Violate the CFAA–Carfax v. Accu-Trade
…v. Savings.com QVC Can’t Stop Web Scraping–QVC v. Resultly (Forbes Cross-Post) Multiple Listing Service Gets Favorable Appellate Ruling in Scraping Lawsuit Anti-Scraping Lawsuits Are Going Crazy in the Real Estate…
Airline Sues to Stop Popular Web-Scraping Service–American Airlines v. The Points Guy (Guest Blog Post)
by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Those interested in web scraping legal issues had high hopes that the Supreme Court’s opinion in Van Buren v. United States last summer would provide…
Talk Notes on the Constitutionality of Transparency Requirements for Internet Services
…work of independent researchers, including liberalized data scraping. My paper will explain why these workarounds may be policy dead-ends too. __ I have a rough draft of the paper that…
TOS Supports Injunction Against Web Scraping–Southwest Airlines v. Kiwi
…Competitor in Scraping Case — CollegeSource v. AcademyOne Anti-Scraping Lawsuit Largely Gutted–Cvent v. Eventbrite Interesting Database Scraping Case Survives Summary Judgment–Snap-On Business Solutions v. O’Neil Facebook Gets Decisive Win Against…
Comments on Arkansas’ “Online Marketplace Consumer Inform Act” (SB 470)
…To thwart this, online marketplaces will surely deploy stronger anti-scraping efforts, which might accelerate the development of more anti-scraping jurisprudence. online marketplaces are required to provide a phone number for…