Relatedly — the court found that LinkedIn was selling a very similar dataset to the one they were attempting to cut off — so the claim that they were protecting customers' privacy was stretched
Finally, LinkedIns asserted private business interests protecting its members data and the investment made in developing its platform and enforcing its User Agreements prohibitions on automated scraping are relatively weak. ... Further, there is evidence that LinkedIn has itself developed a data analytics tool similar to HiQs products, undermining LinkedIns claim that it has its members privacy interests in mind."
Ah okay, thank you. In my book that still makes them hypocrites while their lawyers claim to protect customer privacy by not exposing such data. They should drop their claims and focus on improving the product.
