Fwd: [Infowarrior] - LinkedIn pulls Facebook-style stunt

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:49 PM
Subject: [Infowarrior] - LinkedIn pulls Facebook-style stunt
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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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