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LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data

52 points · 33 comments · ilamont

  1. TrueDuality · · focus · HN ↗
    Huh. Well, federal court so national precedent against creating accounts to scrape registration only content. Probably a good thing IMO. I would put money on the public statement by a LinkedIn official saying "Your profile is yours" will bite them in the future as they certainly don't treat it that way.
    1. wmchen · · focus · HN ↗
      >Well, federal court so national precedent against creating accounts to scrape registration only content.

      I'm not familiar with US Civil Law. Is a precedent established when a consent agreement/settlement is put into place in the US, as is the case in this article?

    2. bentt · · focus · HN ↗
      It would be awesome if data that a site like Linkedin calls the “profile” could be containerized and encrypted in such a way that each individual user holds a key to a box with every piece of identifiable information, and can revoke the right for any 3rd party to access it.

      That would make it “yours”

      1. imglorp · · focus · HN ↗
        Like this? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solidproject.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solidproject.org&#x2F;
        1. bentt · · focus · HN ↗
          Pretty much!

          Now all they have to do is solve the incentives problem, which seems far more difficult.

    3. buzer · · focus · HN ↗
      The article says &quot;deal&quot;. I assume that means settlement between these parties rather than actually evaluating the law?
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