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

[Morgan Leigh]

Tweaking, not doing what users what. That blog post is spin. Linked In
haven't 'listened to their users'. The social ads are still opt out!
They have only said they will not use user images in the ads, but they
are still using links to users who follow a firm that they are
advertising. This means I will not follow firms on Linked In. If I
follow a firm it's because I won't to know what they are doing not to
endorse them in ads!

Regards,

Morgan Leigh
PhD Candidate
School of Sociology and Social Work
University of Tasmania

On 12/08/2011 9:02 AM, Richard Forno wrote:
> 
> Hi Rasha - thx.  :)
> 
> Looks like LinkedIn is tweaking this advertising effort after the outcry:
> 
> http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/08/11/social-ads-update/
> 
> 
> On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Dr. Rasha Abdulla wrote:
> 
>> WOW! Thanks Rick and Meryl for bringing these changes to our attention. The options to change the settings are really "tucked in":) They require some searching. Not sure the average user will ever find them without some clear pointing out.
>>
>> I know the whole concept of privacy has taken on a new meaning with social networks, but will any degree of privacy ever be respected again?
>>
>> Best,
>> Rasha
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Meryl Krieger <meryl.krieger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
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>> Rasha A. Abdulla, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor
>> Journalism and Mass Communication 
>> The American University in Cairo
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