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This was a report I wrote for the IB Extended Essay assignment.

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A Test of Protection Algorithm Against Mass Data Harvesting

This was a report I wrote for the IB Extended Essay assignment.

At the time I wrote this, we were just processing what had happened in the US where Cambridge Analytica had meddled alledgedly influenced the election. I thought I would conduct this research to see how a student like me with no funding could mine some data very simply.

This project uses the Selenium web scraper to navigate LinkedIn profiles to see when LinkedIn would recognise a bot.

The source code can be found in the src folder and it is all in Java. You can read the detailed report above.

Author

Sewen Thy
sewenthy@gmail.com