US appeals court upholds public data scraping

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled hiQ Labs' public data scraping from LinkedIn is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, TechCrunch reports. The decision affirms the court's prior ruling allowing personal data harvesting from public platforms under various circumstances to proceed. The ruling comes after the court referred the case to the U.S. Supreme Court last year, resulting in a re-referral to the ninth circuit for review. Editor's note: The IAPP published analyses of the hiQ case in 2019 and the Van Buren case in 2021.