In August, a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction brought by hiQ Labs that ordered LinkedIn to remove any technology preventing hiQ from accessing public profiles. Judge Edward Chen ruled that LinkedIn cannot prevent startups, such as hiQ, from accessing users’ public profile data. However, LinkedIn appealed this order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in October claiming a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”).… Read More LinkedIn Appeals “Info Scraping” Suit to Ninth Circuit