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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 15 2017, @01:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the bad-for-them-good-for-us-maybe dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday August 16 2017, @04:35AM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 16 2017, @04:35AM (#554562) Journal

    You have (still) many rights in the physical world in regards to information that in principle still exist in the digital realm. Time shifting, format shifting, first-sale, and other rights are being badly eroded and many people are happily contributing to that erosion by folding and going along with it.

    However, although the rights still exist, digital technologies are being re-shaped to completely eliminate most of them in practice through a combination of corporate overreach and public complacence in the face of such overreach. Some encroachment is facilitated via the DMCA / EUCD and so on other encroachment is simply just the result of exploitation of problems designed into the new technologies.

    DRM takes away your existing rights. If this is new to you then the EFF's web site might be a good place to start.

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