hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn, Ninth Circuit opinion on remand (18 April 2022): public pages have no gates (hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., 31 F.4th 1180 (9th Cir. 2022), No. 17-16783)
Scraping pages anyone can see without logging in is unlikely to be access 'without authorization' under the federal anti-hacking law, even after the site objects. The ruling came at the preliminary injunction stage.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“In other words, applying the “gates” analogy to a computer hosting publicly available webpages, that computer has erected no gates to lift or lower in the first place.”
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