Information posted to social networks that are publicly accessible may be scraped and aggregated by third parties regardless of the social media sites’ terms and conditions or even technical means taken to prevent data mining, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. In an opinio...

The New York Times reports on academics who have gathered Facebook user information through data-scraping tools. A group of researchers from Sweden and Poland was able to track the behavior of 368 million Facebook users by scraping every interaction from 160 public pages for two years, while Univers...

For many in the privacy profession, 2018 is arguably the year of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. However, thanks in part to the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data sharing opprobrium, there has been renewed interested in domestic U.S. privacy law by the general public. While the impact of t...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit heard arguments as LinkedIn attempts to have a lower court injunction in its data-scraping case against hiQ Labs dismissed, The Recorder reports. Munger, Tolles & Olson Partner Donald Verrilli Jr. said hiQ was acting without authorization when it scr...

On Oct. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court denied petitions for certiorari in two noteworthy cases from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: Facebook, Inc., v. Power Ventures, Inc. and United States v. Nosal. The cert denial leaves standing the appellate court’s broad interpretation of the Computer F...