LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data

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A California federal judge on Thursday finalized a deal between LinkedIn and two software companies that requires the firms to stop scraping user data on a mass scale. 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. ProAPIs, which calls itself a “data pipeline platform,” posted a comment about the settlement on its website, saying it “does not offer tools to scrape LinkedIn.

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