Microsoft's LinkedIn loses appeal over scraping of user profiles

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New precedent for access to publicly visible information.

Microsoft's LinkedIn loses appeal over scraping of user profiles
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected LinkedIn's effort to stop a San Francisco company from using information that users of the professional networking website have deemed public. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals let stand an August 2017 preliminary injunction that required LinkedIn, a ...

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