LinkedIn claims ProAPIs operates a network of fake accounts that scrape its members’ data, such as company and school information, before selling the information to subscribers.

Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what is now a precious commodity: Your privacy. Read now This case has been dragging on for almost five years.

An appeals court Monday ruled that web scraping—or automatically extracting information from websites and storing it for later use—is legal, protecting a tool used by researchers but dealing a blow to ...