Analytics Firm Waives Answer To LinkedIn’s Computer Fraud Certiorari Petition

Mealey's (April 14, 2020, 2:08 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A data analytics firm that successfully enjoined LinkedIn Corp. from preventing it from scraping publicly viewable user data from its website filed a notice of waiver with the U.S. Supreme Court on April 13, declining to respond to LinkedIn’s petition for certiorari, which raises a question over whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) provides protection for public-facing websites (LinkedIn Corp. v. hiQ Labs Inc., No. 19-1116, U.S. Sup.)....