Decision throws out previous ruling in favor of hiQ Labs that prevented Microsoft s business networking platform to forbid the company from harvesting public info from user profiles. LinkedIn had claimed that hiQ’s actions violate the anti-hacking law. Microsoft-owned professional networking platform has claimed it is a violation of user privacy and a misuse of its data. LinkedIn sued hiQ in 2017 for anti-competitive behavior after the company made a cease-and-desist effort against HiQ to force it to stop data scraping.
Source: https://threatpost.com/court-linkedin-data-scraping/166927/