LinkedIn secures court order against ProAPIs and Netswift mass scraping
September 24, 2026
A California federal judge finalized an agreement requiring ProAPIs and Netswift to cease mass scraping, stop selling extracted member and company data, and delete all previously collected datasets. The ruling also prohibits the use of fake accounts to bypass platform access controls.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou may face stricter legal and technical barriers when attempting to build datasets via web scraping.
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policyThis strengthens the legal precedent for platform owners to enforce data sovereignty against unauthorized aggregators.