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Web scraping is now legal

Here’s what that means for Data Scientists

Tom Waterman
3 min readJan 29, 2020

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This story was sponsored by https://www.corbettanalytics.com.

In late 2019, the US Court of Appeals denied LinkedIn’s request to prevent HiQ, an analytics company, from scraping its data.

The decision was a historic moment in the data privacy and data regulation era. It showed that any data that is…

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