Earlier this month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco took a stand for an open internet. A three-judge panel found that automated searching of a public website, also called web scraping, is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the country’s main anti-hacking law.
At issue was whether or not hiQ Labs, a data analytics company, could continue to scrape publicly available data from LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, even after the resumé website sent a cease-and-desist letter.
