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LinkedIn doesn't protection doesn't seem to be that sophisticated at the moment. Someone I know maintains ~weekly up-to-date profiles of a few million users via a headless scraper that uses ~10 different premium accounts and a very low number of different IPs.

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That is a violation of ToS (using registerd accounts for scrape) and could carry potential legal implications.

So is leaking PII? ToS isn't a legal contract: it's not signed by anyone and it's changed every other week without consent of users. ToS is just a formal excuse why someone's account may be suspended.

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