It would be awesome if data that a site like Linkedin calls the “profile” could be containerized and encrypted in such a way that each individual user holds a key to a box with every piece of identifiable information, and can revoke the right for any 3rd party to access it.

That would make it “yours”

>Well, federal court so national precedent against creating accounts to scrape registration only content.

I'm not familiar with US Civil Law. Is a precedent established when a consent agreement/settlement is put into place in the US, as is the case in this article?

The article says "deal". I assume that means settlement between these parties rather than actually evaluating the law?