Supreme Court Resuscitates LinkedIn’s Attempt To Leverage Anti-Hacking Law To Hide Public Data From Rival

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a lower court ruling that had prevented the business social media platform, LinkedIn, from denying access to publicly available user data by hiQ Labs, its rival.

With this decision, LinkedIn — which is owned by Microsoft — now has “another chance to try to stop rival hiQ Labs from harvesting personal data from the professional networking platform’s public profiles — a practice that LinkedIn contends threatens the privacy of its users,” according to CNBC.