"Defendants' industrial-scale fake account mill scrapes member information that real people have posted on LinkedIn, including data that is only available behind LinkedIn's password wall and that Defendants' customers may not otherwise be allowed to access, and certainly are not allowed to copy and keep in perpetuity,"
"But in that time, each such fake account can sometimes scrape hundreds of profiles, if not more,"
"We do not permit members or third parties to scrape personal data and use it in ways our members have no"
LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary, filed a lawsuit this month against ProAPIs Inc., alleging the company created millions of fake accounts to access and extract member information such as job and education details, posts, reactions and comments. The complaint asserts scraped data included information only accessible behind LinkedIn's password wall and that customers should not be allowed to copy and keep in perpetuity. LinkedIn has pursued legal action against other scrapers, including Proxycurl and hiQ Labs, and says AI-driven tools have increased scraping speed and stakes. LinkedIn reports detecting and restricting many fake accounts but notes each can scrape hundreds of profiles.
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