U.S. Supreme Court judges have ruled that it is not “legitimate” for a customer to scrape information digitally even if he or she keeps that open. The country’s highest court ruled in favor of LinkedIn, a professional media outlet, in contrast to a previous lower court ruling.
Supreme Court judges have already sent their decision to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
If the ruling is implemented, rival hiQ will lose the opportunity to scrape public information from users’ profiles on the LinkedIn site.
Earlier in 2017, the site LinkedIn bot, a site of about 750 million users, banned hiQ from automatically scrapping data that was open on the site. The company, which is owned by Microsoft, also warned that it was against US anti-hacking laws.