>LinkedIn told the Supreme Court that hiQ's software "bots" can harvest data on a massive scale, far beyond what any individual person could do when viewing public profiles.

That doesn't seem any different than when I registered a new business in my state. I did that online, and before I received the printed, mailed confirmation from the state I was getting credit card offers in the mail addressed to the business. I'm not glad how that played out, but I don't see any difference with hiQ collecting public information.