LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data
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LinkedIn has sued ProAPIs Inc., its founder Rehmat Alam, and related parties for operating an industrial-scale scraping service (iScraper API) that allegedly created over one million fake LinkedIn accounts to harvest profile data; LinkedIn seeks a permanent injunction, deletion of scraped data, and monetary damages, and states the information resulted from scraping rather than a direct breach.
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