LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook

LinkedIn has been called out a number of times for how it is able to suggest uncanny connections to you, when it’s not even clear how or why LinkedIn would know enough to make those suggestions in the first place.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner had conducted — and concluded — an investigation of Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, originally prompted by a complaint from a user in 2017, over LinkedIn’s practices regarding people who were not members of the social network.

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