LinkedIn has been prohibited by the Berlin Regional Court from ignoring "do-not-track" signals and from activating default settings that make profiles visible on other platforms.
Ireland's DPA to fine Microsoft $425m for LinkedIn's GDPR breaches.
Just two months ago, data on 500 million LinkedIn users was scraped and posted online. Now someone's selling a database with information on 700 million.
Facebook and LinkedIn have been secretly harvesting personal information from Zoom users to boost their revenues, according to a putative class action filed in California federal court Monday that targets both the social media sites and the newly ubiquitous video conferencing platform. The newly filed lawsuit echoes many of these allegations against Zoom, while also drawing […]
Company called HiQ Labs wins court OK to scrape profiles on LinkedIn for data about people’s lives and connections. LinkedIn invoked a federal anti-hacking law in telling HiQ to stop. It also installed technical blocks to prevent HiQ from accessing otherwise publicly available information on LinkedIn users. A 2017 ruling ordered LinkedIn to stop blocking […]
Just days after the new law comes into force, privacy activists add more tech giants to their list of GDPR targets. French digital rights group La Quadrature du Net hasn’t just gone after Google and Facebook. It’s pursuing Apple, Amazon, and LinkedIn as well. Source: GDPR attacks: First Google, Facebook, now activists go after Apple, Amazon, […]
LinkedIn makes the primary email address associated with an account visible to all direct connections, as well as to people who have your email address in their contacts lists. Source: LinkedIn reveals your personal email to your connections