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Scraping LinkedIn

Siding with a federal judge, a Ninth Circuit panel on Monday found professional networking site LinkedIn cannot bar a data-scraping company from using bots to glean information from publicly available LinkedIn member profiles.

SAN FRANCISCO – Siding with a federal judge, a Ninth Circuit panel on Monday found professional networking site LinkedIn cannot bar a data-scraping company from using bots to glean information from publicly available LinkedIn member profiles.

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