An appeals court Monday ruled that web scraping—or automatically extracting information from websites ... to Microsoft-owned social networking site LinkedIn, which claimed the practice endangers ...

The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brought by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal information ...

The lawsuit was filed in the San Jose, California, federal court on behalf of LinkedIn Premium customers who sent or received InMail messages, and whose private information was disclosed to third ...