[magicalhippo]

Why is scraping even an issue? If people don't want others to find this info, just don't put it out there in the public?

[jwally]

The world isn't binary. People want to look for jobs and network.

At the same time they don't want their data turned over and sold to the kind of people who scrape LinkedIn.

Plus - Your data is LinkedIn's cash cow. They're not going to leave it out for every Tom, Dick, and Harry to export en masse whenever they want.