[Air-L] LinkedIn pulls Facebook-style stunt (privacy)

[Meryl Krieger]

It's even more insidious than this. Not just the "Manage Social Advertising"
but also "Turn on/off data sharing with 3rd party
applications<https://www.linkedin.com/settings/data-sharing?goback=%2Enas_*1_*1_*1>"
(under Groups, Companies and Applications) and under Accounts "Manage Social
Advertising" and the slightly less insidious "Enhanced Advertising."

Best to you all, Meryl

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Richard Forno <rforno at infowarrior.org>wrote:

>
> FYI.....  --- rick
>
>
> LinkedIn pulls Facebook-style stunt
>
> Privacy invasion by default
>
> By Richard Chirgwin
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/11/linkedin_privacy_stuff_up/
>
> Posted in Security, 11th August 2011 02:00 GMT
>
> LinkedIn has become the latest social networking site to decide that new
> features can be added and switched on by default, and users don’t have to be
> notified.
>
> The feature allows LinkedIn to use profile information like names and
> photos in third-party advertising, and seems to have been first noticed by
> blogger Steve Woodruff here.
>
> The feature – hidden away in the Orwellian-named “Manage Social
> Advertising” option – has to be switched off through a user’s account
> settings. Permission for this is tucked away in a new condition in
> LinkedIn’s Terms of Use, which makes it an opt-out feature.
>
> Already, Radio Netherlands Worldwide has reported that the new profile
> setting may breach Dutch privacy law. The CBP, The Netherlands’ data
> protection agency, says the use of LinkedIn members’ photographs can only be
> used in advertising material with the users’ explicit consent.
>
> The Radio Netherlands piece notes that the Dutch view is in line with that
> of the EU Data Protection Working Party, and also states that LinkedIn
> failed to properly notify users of the change. ®
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-- 
J. Meryl Krieger
Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology
Adjunct Lecturer, Sociology, Indiana University Purdue University at
Indianapolis
Adjunct Instructor, Communications and Life Skills/Humanities, Ivy Tech
Community College
Piano/Clarinet Teacher, Stafford Music Academy, Bloomington, IN

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