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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. federal appellate court
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Should developers have the right to make software that connects with large platforms (like Facebook or iOS) without the platform’s permission?
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit strongly agrees and says:
HiQ points out that data scraping is a common method of gathering information, used by search engines, academic researchers, and many others. According to hiQ, letting established entities that already have accumulated large user data sets decide who can scrape that data from otherwise public websites gives those entities outsized control over how such data may be put to use. We agree with the district court that giving companies like LinkedIn free rein to decide, on any basis, who can collect and use data—data that the companies do not own, that they otherwise make publicly available to viewers, and that the companies themselves collect and use—risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest. (2019) source Unverified