LinkedIn can't block start-up from public profile data

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LinkedIn can't block start-up from public profile data

US judge grants preliminary injunction.

A US federal judge has ruled that Microsoft's LinkedIn unit cannot prevent a start-up from accessing public profile data, in a test of how much control a social media site can wield over information its users have deemed to be public. US district judge Edward Chen in San Francisco ...

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