User Data
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 activity constitutes a violation of LinkedIn’s terms of service (ToS), based on which the company seeks to get the court’s approval for a permanent injunction, […]
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Telegram hands over data on thousands of users to US law enforcement
Telegram reveals that the communications platform has fulfilled 900 U.S. government requests, sharing the phone number or IP address information of 2,253 users with law enforcement. This number is a steep increase from previous years, with most requests processed after the platform’s policy shift on sharing user data, announced in September 2024. While Telegram has long been […]
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