Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Oras 699 days ago
That's not about public data. Reference [7] talked about creating fake accounts to scrape.

> hiQ had prevailed on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) “unauthorized access” issue related to public website data but was facing a ruling that it had breached LinkedIn’s User Agreement due to its scraping and creation of fake accounts (subject to its equitable defenses).

https://natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-prop...

1 comments

So many useful stuffs in the comments. Thank you, will give this a read as well.