{"id":564406,"date":"2021-06-15T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564406"},"modified":"2021-06-15T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:51:55","slug":"supreme-court-resuscitates-linkedins-attempt-to-leverage-anti-hacking-law-to-hide-public-data-from-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-resuscitates-linkedins-attempt-to-leverage-anti-hacking-law-to-hide-public-data-from-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Resuscitates LinkedIn\u2019s Attempt To Leverage Anti-Hacking Law To Hide Public Data From Rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-resuscitates-linkedins-attempt-to-leverage-anti-hacking-law-to-hide-public-data-from-rival%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564406&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-586113574-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a lower court ruling that had prevented the business social media platform, LinkedIn, from denying access to publicly-available user data by hiQ Labs, its rival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With this decision, LinkedIn \u2014 which is owned by Microsoft \u2014 now has \u201canother chance to try to stop rival hiQ Labs from harvesting personal data from the professional networking platform\u2019s public profiles \u2014 a practice that LinkedIn contends threatens the privacy of its users,\u201d according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/14\/us-supreme-court-revives-linkedin-bid-to-shield-personal-data.html\"><span>CNBC<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This debate is centered on whether or not companies can use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act \u2014 federal anti-hacking legislation which is designed to prevent unauthorized access to computers or relevant stored data \u2014 to \u201cblock competitors from harvesting or \u2018scraping\u2019 vast amounts of customer data from public-facing parts of a website.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The debate between competitors LinkedIn and hiQ Labs now goes back to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The Court will now \u201creconsider in light of their June 4 ruling that limited the type of conduct that can be criminally prosecuted under the same law. In that case, the justices found that a person cannot be guilty of violating that law if they misuse information on a computer that they have permission to access.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As CNBC pointed out, this case highlights the debate surrounding the access and profitability of \u201cpersonal\u201d and yet \u201cpublicly available\u201d information online. This case began when LinkedIn threatened hiQ with legal action in 2017 for \u201cscraping LinkedIn\u2019s public profiles.\u201d HiQ then responded by suing LinkedIn in federal court, \u201caccusing LinkedIn of anti-competitive conduct,\u201d and arguing that \u201cpublic data must remain public and innovation on the internet should not be stifled by anti-competitive hoarding of public data by a small group of powerful companies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As <a href=\"https:\/\/au.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/supreme-court-revives-linkedin-case-185414226.html\">Yahoo! Finance<\/a> reported, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) was \u201conce dubbed the \u2018worst law\u2019 in the technology law books by critics who have long argued that its outdated and vague language failed to keep up with the pace of the modern internet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLinkedIn\u2019s expansive interpretation of the CFAA would exacerbate the law\u2019s chilling effects\u2014not only for the security research community, but also for journalists, discrimination researchers, and others who use automated tools to support their socially valuable work. Similar lawsuits are already starting to pop up across the country, including one by airline <\/span><span>RyanAir<\/span><span> alleging that Expedia\u2019s fair scraping violated the CFAA,\u201d argued the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2017\/12\/worst-law-technology-strikes-again-2017-review\"><span>Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/span><\/a><span> (EFF) in December 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The EFF described the CFAA as \u201c<\/span><span>an old, blunt instrument,\u201d and that \u201ctrying to use it to solve a modern, complicated dispute between two companies will undermine open access to information on the Internet for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe power to limit access to publicly available information on the Internet under color of the law should be dictated by carefully considered rules that balance the various competing policy interests. These rules should not allow the handful of companies that collect massive amounts of user data to reap the benefits of making that information publicly available online\u2014<\/span><i><span>i.e<\/span><\/i><span>., more Internet traffic and thus more data and more eyes for advertisers\u2014while at the same time limiting use of that public information via the force of criminal law,\u201d the EFF wrote in their amicus brief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a lower court ruling that had prevented the business social media platform, LinkedIn, from denying access to publicly-available user data by hiQ &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280326,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-586113574-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Supreme Court Resuscitates LinkedIn\u2019s Attempt To Leverage Anti-Hacking Law To Hide Public Data From Rival","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-586113574-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Supreme Court Resuscitates LinkedIn\u2019s Attempt To Leverage Anti-Hacking Law To Hide Public Data From Rival","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}