Legal & Compliance

In a report recently published by Oxylabs.io titled “The Growing Importance of Alternative Data in the Financial Services Industry”, high-ranking financial services leaders who responded to the study indicated a huge rise in web scraping activities over the past twelve months.

In March 2020, LinkedIn filed a petition for a writ of certiorari surrounding hiQ’s use of anonymous bots employed to get around technical barriers to harvest millions of individuals’ personal data from computer servers that host public-facing websites.

In early March, two weeks after Virginia became the second state to impose comprehensive legislation around data privacy, the Information Transparency and Personal data Control Act became the first piece of comprehensive privacy legislation introduced in the 117th U.S.

On December 8th, 2020, Apple updated its policy requiring developers who submit new apps and app updates to the Apple App Store to provide information on the apps’ privacy practices.