LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data(therecord.media) |
LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data(therecord.media) |
[1]: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.838...
[2]: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67896748/air-canada-v-l...
It's an easy fix, just have the recruiters verify with an email every month, but they don't so it makes me think they either encourage it or they really don't care because they benefit somehow.
With companies increasingly viewing their defenseability and value as their data, their online presence will become more gated, and curated through their managed experiences. Social media, news, reddit, etc are already like this, and it's not inconceivable that companies like Amazon, Ebay (who are fighting their own scraping battles) move the direction of sign in to visit more than a few pages.
This would mean that we'll all be forced to use accounts to see anything substantial within a site. And it'll be harder to view things across sites.
I know that this particular case is about scraping personal data, but I think it's a catalyst for many upcoming lawsuits that will broadly shift the internet in an undesirable direction
Make it look like it came from Enemy State of the week.
Everyone can maintain plausible deniability, and no one needs to get punished.
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Works in Chrome, doesn't work in Firefox. Firefox randomizes extension IDs per install.
"Chrome extensions can expose internal files to web pages through the web_accessible_resources field in their manifest.json. When an extension is installed and has exposed a resource, a fetch() request to chrome-extension://{id}/{file} will succeed. When the extension is not installed, Chrome blocks the request and the promise rejects.
LinkedIn tests every extension in the list this way."
That would make it “yours”
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?
You'll also benefit from better privacy if you never register to begin with.