HiQ Labs v LinkdedIn News

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn Corp. another chance to try to stop rival hiQ Labs Inc. from harvesting personal data from the professional networking platform’s public profiles – a practice that LinkedIn contends threatens the …

A U.S. federal judge on Monday ruled that Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn unit cannot prevent a startup from accessing public profile data, in a test of how much control a social media site can wield over information its users have deemed …