Current state of web-scraping: legal developments
Brittany Thomas, Senior Regulatory Analyst (New York)
In the past couple of years, the outcomes of several high-profile legal battles involving website operators and web-scrapers set differing precedents on either side of the Atlantic. In this report, we look closer at some of the cases and what they mean for the legality of web-scraping.
THE US COURTS – WHERE ARE WE WITH HIQ LABS?
Centered on whether the now-defunct data analytics firm hiQ Labs, Inc. (hiQ) has the right to scrape public profile data from the professional networking platform LinkedIn, hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation has been one of the most observed legal battles in the web-scraping space.