Human capital data, while historically popular, has seen renewed interest as global market volatility and delayed official government statistics grow demand for labour-related insights. As an overarching category, it includes hiring activity, profile information, talent movements and compensation trends.

Considering its proximity to both personal information and data sourced through web-scraping, human capital data represents a unique compliance challenge. When conducting due diligence on this kind of data, buyers need to consider direct data risks, such as consumer privacy concerns, as well as broader technology policy trends, including increased web-scraping limitations, such as paywalls.

Keeping these key issues in mind, this report will cover:

1. Key compliance concerns
2. LinkedIn litigation and historical lawsuits
3. Future areas to watch
4. Data buyer takeaways