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Automation Tools VS LinkedIn term of Services , legal consequences


06-Jun-2023 (In Startup Law)
Dear lawyer We are a SaaS company based in Delhi, we operate in the B2B marketing services industry. One of our main services focuses on generating leads for companies around the world. Specifically, our customers provide us with a detailed marketing segmentation, with this we activate bots that go to crawl the LinkedIn Social Platform (no hacking involved, we just automate repetitive tasks normally a user has to do manually), saving the relevant leads in our database. Once this operation is over we resell these databases to our customers. Using automation tools within the LinkedIn site we are aware of going against their terms of service, but we want to know the degree of risk we are facing. Specifically, taking information in LinkedIn using automated systems may involve: 1) penal consequences? 2) fines? what figures? 3) other consequences? Thanks for your attention and your time best regards
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Answer #1
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The first question is as to what is the degree of breach on your part. Is there even a breach of the terms of service or not. Ultimately if you are consciously doing something knowing it is barred by law, it will have penal and civil consequences both.
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Answer #2
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Hi,

We need to talk over the phone to understand your query better. From the information that you've provided, your concern is not very clear and is ambiguous. We can have a better idea about things by engaging in direct conversation.
Feel free to get in touch.

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Smriti Khurana
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