LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data
The agreement between LinkedIn, ProAPIs and joint business operator Netswift also requires the firms to stop selling and transferring the data, no longer access LinkedIn through fake accounts and delete the data that was scraped, according to a senior LinkedIn executive.
Summary
LinkedIn has secured a court order preventing ProAPIs and Netswift from mass scraping user data. The ruling mandates that these companies must cease selling the data, stop using fake accounts to access LinkedIn, and delete any previously scraped information.
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