Web Scraping Is Legal--For Now
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:33:25 +1200
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LinkedIn has been suing a company called hiQ for scraping information from public user profiles, and so far it has lost, twice <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/09/hiq_wins_linkedin_appeal/>. But of course LinkedIn, being owned by Microsoft, has much deeper legal pockets, and will simply continue a war of attrition until hiQ gives up. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list -- [email protected] | To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Unsubscribe: %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s