LinkedIn Asks High Court To Decide If CFAA Protects Public-Facing Websites’ Data

Mealey's (March 16, 2020, 2:43 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a March 9 petition for certiorari, LinkedIn Corp. asks the U.S. Supreme Court to decide “a question of fundamental importance” as to whether a public-facing website can claim the unauthorized access protections of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) against companies that employ data collection methods such as scrapers and bots (LinkedIn Corp. v. hiQ Labs Inc., No. 19-1116, U.S. Sup.)....