LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles

Social media giant LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against a company which it says operates a network of millions of fake accounts used to scrape data from LinkedIn members before selling the information to third parties without permission.

ProAPIs, a software company, and its CEO Rahmat Alam allegedly run an operation which LinkedIn says charges customers up to $15,000 per month for scraped user data taken from the social media platform.

With the rise of artificial intelligence, companies which scrape user data at scale are proliferating and are increasingly undermining consumer privacy.

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