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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?

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