Data scraping is not illegal on LinkedIn, but you must abide by certain terms and conditions before you can take action. LinkedIn is a social media platform that contains a lot of data about people ...

A federal appellate court has denied LinkedIn's request to reconsider a ruling that requires the company to allow its site to be scraped by analytics company hiQ Labs. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ...

A federal judge has handed down a mixed ruling in a long-running battle between LinkedIn and hiQ Labs, a defunct analytics company that scraped users' profiles. In a decision made public late Friday, ...

Last week, the Italian data protection authority (the “GPDP”) opened an investigation after reports that a dataset allegedly containing data compiled from 500 million LinkedIn profiles and other ...

Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what is now a precious commodity: Your privacy. Read now This case has been dragging on for almost five years.

(Reuters) - A data-crunching startup called hiQ relies entirely on the public profiles of LinkedIn users. HiQ sells “people analytics” to companies including eBay, Capital One and GoDaddy, ...