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Typically depends on what you do with scraped data. There is an interesting recent US court ruling [1] [1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin
by jakubbalada 9y ago
Typically depends on what you do with scraped data. There is an interesting recent US court ruling [1]
[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-ruling/u-s-judge-says-linkedin-cannot-block-startup-from-public-profile-data-idUSKCN1AU2BV http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-ruling/...
- seanwilson 9y agoIf a court decides the usage wasn't legal, what's your liability as the service that provided the crawler?
- jancurn 9y agoWe consider ourselves only as service providers. We provide technical means to perform the crawling but the responsibility for the actual crawling is with our users. It's similar to Amazon AWS - they only provide infrastructure and it's your responsibility not to use it for anything illeagal.
- seanwilson 9y agoJust curious but how to do enforce this assigning of responsibility? You make the user agree to terms of service before crawling?
- jancurn 9y agoYes, every user has to agree with the Terms of use when signing up.
- breakingcups 9y agoHow does that gel with features specifically aimed at cirumventing scrape-detection and blocking such as IP rotating?