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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

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The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. Are robots.txt, IP address blocks, or cease-and-desist letters still relevant to the CFAA at all?

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September Privacy and Security Roundup: Funding national cybersecurity, violating Safeguards Rule and fighting cyber threats

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In our latest Privacy and Security Roundup , we cover the Senate-passed bill that includes nearly $2 billion in national cybersecurity funding, recent sanctions by the SEC on investment advisors and broker-dealers, a new initiative that aims to improve defense planning and information sharing between the public and private sectors, and more.

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Court Dissolves hiQ’s Injunction Against LinkedIn–hiQ v. LinkedIn

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The Court ordered LinkedIn to withdraw its cease-and-desist letter, to remove any existing technical barriers to hiQ’s access to LinkedIn members’ public profiles, and to refrain from erecting any legal or technical barriers that block hiQ’s access to those profiles. LinkedIn appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Anti-Circumvention Takedowns Aren’t Covered by 512(f)–Yout v. RIAA

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2022 WL 4599203 (D. Summit Entertainment. * Cease & Desist Letter to iTunes Isn’t Covered by 17 USC 512(f)–Red Rock v. RIAA appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. But if they want to be double-sure, send a takedown notice on any grounds other than copyright infringement and voila! The complaint.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

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Google case from 2022. Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz., And to characterize zero-click online terms of use that are imposed by cease-and-desist letter as enforceable contracts is horrible policy and bad law. Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)

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Regardless, it sent a cease and desist to the defendants in 2022 who have a shop in Jaipur with a similar name and have registered the word mark in 2013. CIC clarifies that merely because a fellowship is funded by public exchequer, it will not mean that it is a public interest issue outweighing concerning privacy issues.

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Game On! Bright Data Scores Major Victory in Web-Scraping Dispute with Meta (Guest Blog Post)

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In December 2022, Meta’s “anti-scraping team” told Bright Data to stop scraping its data. Bright Data claims that it was using its Facebook and Instagram accounts for marketing purposes and was never logged in to its accounts when scraping. Meta owns Facebook and Instagram. Meta was once a customer of Bright Data’s. Verio, Inc.