A few years ago, LinkedIn was told by a US federal judge that it could not block rivals such as HIQ laboratories from eroding personal data from public profiles. But on Monday, the US Supreme Court threw the verdict, sending it back to the 9th appeal circuit.
This is due to the 4th June decision recently limiting the scope of fraud and laws of computer harassment, federal anti-hacking laws that block access to computers without authorization. In the special decision, the Supreme Court has made a decision that someone cannot be guilty of misuse information if they have permission to use the computer in question.
It all started in 2017 when LinkedIn accused HIQ from cutting LinkedIn public profiles. HIQ will then use data to create an algorithm that can predict when employees may leave their work. LinkedIn said that HIQ violated the anti-hacking law above, while HIQ accused LinkedIn because it became anti-competitive. HIQ demanded LinkedIn, stating that public data must remain public.
As mentioned, the 9th US appeal circuit prevents LinkedIn from blocking HIQ, which states that the law does not apply in situations where data is available to the public. Since then, however, LinkedIn has made his case to the Supreme Court that HIQ bots can harvest data on a scale outside what someone can do. In addition, some data has been posted for sale.
