Court and legislative activity of interest to the legal technology community:
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• Fraud—LinkedIn: Spambots have infiltrated LinkedIn, and the professional networking site is fighting back.The Mountain View, Calif.–based company filed suit in the Northern District of California on Jan. 6, alleging that unknown intruders used automated software programs to create thousands of fake LinkedIn accounts and scrape data from legitimate user profile pages. The company, which believes the abuse began in May 2013, has nearly 260 million members. In a 16-page complaint filed by Munger Tolles & Olson, LinkedIn says those involved not only breached the company’s user agreement, but also violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and California’s Comprehensive Computer Access and Fraud Act.
