Remove 2013 Remove Defendant Remove Failure-to-appear
article thumbnail

After hiQ Labs, Is Scraping Public Data Legal? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Last year, the most important case in the history of web scraping— hiQ Labs, Inc. LinkedIn Corp. hiQ Labs I, 938 F.3d 3d 985 at 1005 ; hiQ Labs II at 43. Bright Data allegedly scraped Meta’s public data and sold it to its clients. Meta sent Bright Data a series of cease-and-desist notices telling it to stop.

Defendant 127
article thumbnail

Verizon and Its Cloud Vendor Must Face Lawsuit for Reporting “CSAM” That Wasn’t – Lawshe v. Verizon (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Less distressing but equally true (if only marginally less dated a cultural reference) is that the Internet is for porn. While online services inevitably get used for both types of content, service providers tend to treat them very differently, given that adult pornography is generally legal in the U.S. whereas CSAM is illegal everywhere.

Lawsuit 52