In a decision that could have enormous consequences for data security in social networks, the US Supreme Court has overturned a lower court order that had previously banned LinkedIn from refusing recruitment software company hiQ access to data that LinkedIn members had made publicly available in its app.
The case marks a turning point in the fight against data scraping. After discovering that hiQ Labs had been scraping LinkedIn user data – gathering personal information from publicly accessible profiles of LinkedIn users – in order to create its own recruitment information service, LinkedIn attempted to cut hiQ Labs off from its service in 2017.
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