Bleeping Computer: LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...

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