Alleged Scraper Settles With LinkedIn; Company to Pay $40K, Destroy User Data

A startup job recruitment site that allegedly scraped LinkedIn member data will pay the professional social networking company $40,000 and destroy all member data under a proposed settlement filed July 11 with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (LinkedIn Corp. v. Robocog Inc., N.D. Cal., No. 5:14-cv-00068-BLF, proposed settlement filed.

The settlement prohibits Robocog Inc., doing business as HiringSolved, from using technological means to circumvent LinkedIn’s control access measures. HiringSolved is a software product specializing in talent search and data aggregation that also sells access to its software and search engine index, court documents ...