Enhancing protections against unauthorized scraping
Our teams are working every day to keep people who use LinkedIn safe from evolving threats to privacy, security and safety. Today, I want to share updates we are making to better protect you against unauthorized scraping so you can focus on finding your next dream job, building connections and sharing your expertise with your professional community. Starting today, we are updating our systems to better prevent unauthorized extensions from scraping data.
We’ve shared before how unauthorized scraping is one of the most challenging and rapidly evolving risks to privacy online. In some cases, bad actors use tools to gather people’s personal information without their consent. It’s often collected from a number of sources and then sold to other third parties or used in ways people didn’t authorize. There are also some reputable tools like search engines that work with sites to obtain proper permissions and are authorized to scrape public information to organize it across the internet while honoring privacy settings.
No matter where bad actors go next with unauthorized scraping, we are committed to keeping control of your data where it belongs - with you. In addition to the technology and teams we’ve long had in place, we’re working on new defenses in order to stop scraping before it happens. You can learn more about the impact of our work here.
WebScraping | Automation | BackEnd | Python
8mo"bad actors use tools to gather people’s personal information without their consent" what does big companies like FANGs do?
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8moThe LinkedIn dBase is in the public domain because of user ignorance of settings, apathy and has it been indexed by Internet browsers and others for years. A simple Boolean or term search alot. Copying of a limited data set is legal as LinkedIn know. The fact LinkedIn condone companies to tag, track data, interactions or support the use of 3rd party api`s from LinkedIn integration into Microsoft O365, recruiter platforms and more raises another bag of actions to address. One example, a preview of a LinkedIn profile during scheduling of a hiring appointment. A hiring manager can decline it leading to non-compliance or discrimmination based on a 10 second look at a simple profile. No need to click on the documents attached. LinkedIn is a Microsoft group company after all - living under threat of being broken up into an umbrella brand and a subset of apps within the MS landscape. So as you blow your trumpet to announce the changes, it would be great if you could also ensure you clearly explain to ALL users of the change and the overhaul of the user agreement impact backed up with up to date support page content (which you know this site lacks). That alone would be a first in the total history of LinkedIn. Thank you.