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Reuters has an update on the ongoing court battle between LinkedIn and hiQ Labs, and has issued a preliminary injunction stating that LinkedIn cannot prevent a startup from accessing public profile data
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction request brought by hiQ Labs, and ordered LinkedIn to remove within 24 hours any technology preventing hiQ from accessing public profiles.
The case is considered to have implications beyond LinkedIn and hiQ Labs and could dictate just how much control companies have over publicly available data that is hosted on their services.
There is additional background to this case from an earlier atricle at Ars Technica. TLDR version; HiQ scrapes data from public LinkedIn profiles, and then sells analysis of this data to relevant employers. LinkedIn claimed HiQ's access was not allowed and HiQ violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as a result. HiQ sued, asking the courts to rule that they were operating legally.
Also at The BBC, with more details and background.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday August 15 2017, @07:33PM (3 children)
It seems so many search engines point back to Google in some way or another. I'm guessing that DuckDuckGo doesn't rely exclusively on Google since it's possible to find on DuckDuckGo news articles that Google has disappeared (presumably because feminists and other SJWs are allergic to certain scientific observations). Has anybody compiled a list of search engines and to what extent they rely on Google?
A good subset of Google went in my hosts file last week (been using DuckDuckGo for a while now so barely noticed). I still need replacements for all of Google's services (Translate mostly… I'm assuming replacing YouTube is a lost cause—maybe I'll start using youtube-dl as my preferred YouTube browser), but right now Google is higher on my shitlist than Chick-Fil-A.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:17PM (2 children)
This quora link will be of interest to you - https://www.quora.com/How-do-Dogpile-and-DuckDuckGo-work [quora.com]
I just found this page, which is even more interesting - http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/12-things-duckduckgo-can-do-that-google-cant-596526 [ndtv.com]
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:35PM (1 child)
Thanks!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:48PM
I just had a whole page filled with interesting stuff about DDG. Go to DDG (or just about any other search engine) and type "how does duckduckgo work". I just finished a tutorial on techboomer's site, and closed all the open tabs. There's a good deal of stuff I didn't know. There's probably more, but my time is limited.