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After more than two-thirds of LinkedIn\u2019s publicly available user data was listed for sale on the dark web, the company has issued a statement condemning all web-scraping activity on their platform. However, Karolis Toleikis, CEO at IPRoyal, suggests that such incidents do not represent the web-scraping industry and there are ways to use scraping for legitimate business purposes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 21, 2021.\u00a0<\/strong>After more than\u00a0half a billion<\/u><\/a>\u00a0of its member profiles appeared on the black market, LinkedIn has issued a\u00a0statement<\/u><\/a>\u00a0assuring its users that any parties that aggregate LinkedIn user data will be stopped and held accountable. However, Karolis Toleikis, CEO at\u00a0IPRoyal<\/u><\/a>\u2014a residential proxy provider\u2014suggests that there has to be a distinction made between malicious actors who use web scraping to perpetrate such incidents and genuine companies that employ the technology to make more informed business decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 8, the personal information of\u00a0500 million<\/u><\/a>\u00a0LinkedIn users\u00a0was reported<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to have been listed for sale on a hacker site. In response, LinkedIn\u00a0neglected<\/u><\/a>\u00a0any security flaws on their end stating that the information was opportunistically aggregated via web scraping. Furthermore, the company\u00a0reasserted its commitment<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to block all third parties from harvesting LinkedIn member data without their users\u2019 consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this instance involves an anonymous actor that is attempting to profiteer by selling the aggregated data on the\u00a0dark web,<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in the past LinkedIn has also taken legal action against public companies that offer analytic products created from publicly available LinkedIn user information. Probably the most-known example is the\u00a0ongoing legal battle\u00a0<\/u><\/a>between LinkedIn and HiQ\u2014a data analytics startup\u2014that was followed by LinkedIn\u2019s attempts to stop HiQ from aggregating its public user information and resulted in the U.S. Court\u00a0allowing<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the startup to resume its scraping operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen unfortunate incidents like the one that happened on April 8 take place, the practice of web-scraping often gets conflated with various forms of malicious activity like hacking, fraud, and information theft. However, that does not represent the true potential of this technology.  In reality, it is web-scraping applications utilized by genuine businesses that really drive the rapid growth of the web scraping industry,\u201d said Mr. Toleikis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went on to explain how companies can benefit from integrating data scraping into their business model. \u201cCollecting and analyzing large amounts of data is a process designed to extract insights about a particular industry or uncover underlying patterns of consumer behavior which our customers typically employ to make better business decisions. Data collected via data scraping can facilitate processes such as web content creation, business intelligence, finding sales leads, conducting marketing or advertising research, and developing personalization.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having said that, there are more incidents like the recent one involving LinkedIn. In April 2021 alone, data of over 500 million\u00a0Facebook<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Clubhouse<\/u><\/a>\u00a0users have been listed for sale. While the practice of scraping publicly available data remains legal in most countries, in some cases, such information is used to perpetrate serious criminal offenses. According to Toleikis, it remains largely up to residential proxy providers to ensure that web scraping is used in a legal manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cResidential proxy providers should always make sure that they are working with genuine companies and individuals only. Therefore, using an advanced user identity verification process is essential. This way, if the proxy provider suspects that their client has plans to engage in something unlawful\u2013such as targeted phishing attacks, spamming campaigns, or online fraud\u2014they can be immediately held accountable for their actions,\u201d said Mr. Toleikis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with any technology that has a wide range of applications\u2014if used properly\u2014web scraping can assist genuine companies in obtaining business intelligence, brand protection, and product personalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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