Re:9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not...
by austincheney on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @08:03AM
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LinkedIn’s public facing content is exactly that: public. This ruling merely says accessing public content isn’t hacking and so LinkedIn cannot use the CFAA as discriminatory weapon to limit access to that public facing content.
If LinkedIn wants to block access they need to do so by another means that isn’t described as hacking.
If LinkedIn wants to block access they need to do so by another means that isn’t described as hacking.