LinkedIn has asked the full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to review its ruling in the hiQ Labs case, MediaPost reports. A three-judge panel found LinkedIn must allow publicly available user data to be scraped by the analytics firm. In papers filed with the court, LinkedIn argues the ruling puts the privacy rights of its users at risk. "LinkedIn members have privacy rights — and LinkedIn has corresponding obligations, pursuant to its privacy policy — regarding what happens to personal data members post to LinkedIn," the company wrote. "By contrast, hiQ has no contractual relationship with LinkedIn’s members limiting how it can share their data or requiring its deletion if a member so requests." Editor's Note: IAPP General Counsel and Data Protection Officer Rita Heimes, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, wrote about the initial ruling in this piece for Privacy Tracker.
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