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LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data

52 points · 33 comments · ilamont

TrueDuality · 1790268328 · 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. bentt · 1790269057 · 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 · 1790270335 · focus · HN ↗
    Like this? <a href="https://solidproject.org/" rel="nofollow">https://solidproject.org/
    bentt · 1790360912 · focus · HN ↗
    Pretty much!
    Now all they have to do is solve the incentives problem, which seems far more difficult.

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