9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]
This action does more than that. The court left the preliminary injunction against LinkedIn in place: &quot;The district court granted hiQ’s motion. It ordered LinkedIn to withdraw its cease-and-desist letter, to remove any existing technical barriers to hiQ’s access to public profiles, and to <i>refrain from putting in place any legal or technical measures with the effect of blocking hiQ’s access to public profiles.&quot;</i><p>So LinkedIn is prohibited from blocking hiQ&#x27;s access by technical means. That&#x27;s a strong holding. If this case is eventually decided in favor of hiQ, scrapers can no longer be blocked. Throttled a little, maybe, but no more than other users doing a comparable query rate.