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You mean legally?

• Animats 8y ago
  No, that this will probably cost Linkedin their users who work for government or government contractors.
  • tomnipotent 8y ago
    A user violated the TOS and wrote a screen scraper that pulled down public profile data. Yeah, real "easy". You cannot protect from this sort of behavior outside of completely disabling this functionality altogether. Anything a human has access to, so does software.
    • johnnyfaehell 8y ago
      > A user violated the TOS and wrote a screen scraper that pulled down public profile data. Yeah, real "easy". Yep, that's pretty easy to do. But I'm pretty sure this was even easier since I don't think they wrote a screen-scraper. They just accessed a JSON endpoint. > You cannot protect from this sort of behavior outside of completely disabling this functionality altogether. Anything a human has access to, so does software. You say that like it changes anything. People don't care if it can be protected against easily, people just care if it can happen at all.