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Beamery Makes it Rain, Linkedin Gets Reprieve in Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has given LinkedIn another chance in its legal fight to stop HR technology firm HiQ Labs from scraping LinkedIn user data against the company’s demands.
The nation’s highest court this week issued a writ of certiorari, noting it may hear the case, but telling the appeals court to first redo its earlier decision in favor of HiQ. The court told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to retry the case in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling in a similar case.
HiQ Labs, founded in 2012 in Silicon Valley, scrapes publicly available data, including LinkedIn member…
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