Andrea Vittorio reports:
A workforce analytics firm breached LinkedIn Corp.‘s user agreement by scraping data and using fake accounts to fuel its now-defunct business, a federal court in San Francisco ruled in a lengthy dispute that’s on a path to trial.
The ruling, made public Friday, represents a partial win for LinkedIn in a case that also asks whether hiQ Labs Inc.’s scraping violated a federal anti-hacking law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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