2 questions I asked myself after reading this:
1) Do I side with LinkedIn or HiQ?
2) What case law precedent do I think we ought to set?
I’m personally conflicted on which way to lean. I see pros and cons to both - this is an interesting case.
1) Do I side with LinkedIn or HiQ?
2) What case law precedent do I think we ought to set?
I’m personally conflicted on which way to lean. I see pros and cons to both - this is an interesting case.
I think commercial scraping should probably be allowed, but there should be some sort of mandatory maximum retention limit, so deleted (or updated access controls on) content eventually ages out (or gets transferred to a non-commercial custodian for archival purposes).
I think individuals should have the right to know whether they are in datasets and the right to be deleted from that dataset upon request if they never gave direct consent to the entity holding their data. It seems extreme from where we are now, but maybe data brokers should be required to notify people when they're added to a dataset without direct consent, including instructions on how to be removed if they don't want to be included.
Isn't indexing for search what HiQ is doing too?