Summary:
- LinkedIn, the professional social media platform, is suing a data scraping company called hiQ Labs for illegally accessing and collecting data from LinkedIn profiles without permission.
- Data scraping is the process of automatically extracting large amounts of data from websites, which hiQ Labs was doing to gather information about LinkedIn users.
- LinkedIn argues that this data scraping violates their user agreement and is a form of unauthorized access, while hiH Labs claims their actions are legal and beneficial for users.