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Comment: Facebook, LinkedIn battle growing army of scrapers pecking away at user data

By Mike Swift ( November 23, 2020, 23:10 GMT | Comment) -- Facebook and LinkedIn are among the online platforms resorting to federal court litigation to battle automated web scraping, the growing business where automated bots harvest and analyze large amounts of data available from web platforms. The platforms say they are fighting back to protect users' privacy, while the scrapers say their true goal is monopolize the data that users agreed to make public when they put it on the platform.Facebook and LinkedIn are among the online platforms resorting to federal court litigation to battle automated web scraping, the growing business where automated bots harvest and analyze large amounts of data available from web platforms....

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