Data brokers

LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data

Published September 21, 2026 · The Record

LinkedIn secured a court order against ProAPIs and affiliated operator Netswift, which had been harvesting member profile data at scale and reselling it. Under the settlement terms, the companies must halt sales and transfers of the collected information, stop using fabricated accounts to reach the platform, and destroy what they already gathered.

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