U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data

Re:U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield persona... by NaOH on Monday June 14, 2021 @09:20PM (#27510334)

>LinkedIn told the Supreme Court that hiQ's software "bots" can harvest data on a massive scale, far beyond what any individual person could do when viewing public profiles.

That doesn't seem any different than when I registered a new business in my state. I did that online, and before I received the printed, mailed confirmation from the state I was getting credit card offers in the mail addressed to the business. I'm not glad how that played out, but I don't see any difference with hiQ collecting public information.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield persona... by fncypants on Monday June 14, 2021 @09:47PM (#27510464)

Secretary of State / corporate information is often sold in bulk without any need for scraping without authorization.

> Daily Filing Update – a file that includes all of the database updates for a specific day. Customers frequently begin by purchasing a Master Unload in order to create a database, and then subscribe to the Daily Filing Update so that they can download and update their databases on a daily basis to keep their data current with that maintained on the SOS BEST database.[0]

[0] https://direct.sos.state.tx.us/help/help-corp.asp?pg=bulk

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