An appeals court Monday ruled that web scraping—or automatically extracting information from websites and storing it for later use—is legal, protecting a tool used by researchers but dealing a blow to ...

Siding against LinkedIn, a federal appellate panel has again upheld an order requiring the company to allow analytics firm hiQ Labs to scrape publicly available data. The ruling marked the second time ...

A company that previously tussled with Craigslist over the right to scrape data from public websites wants a federal judge to declare that LinkedIn can’t stop it from systematically scouring user ...