The Irish Data Protection Commission has published a report, part of a LinkedIn study.
Among all existing social networks, LinkedIn may not be so appealing. It is impressive because it is based on a professional field; However, in order to attract more users, the platform does not adopt an ethical strategy, according to a report, 18 million email accounts violate the privacy practices used to promote publicity. On Facebook
As reported by TechCrunch, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) submitted a report on Friday, accused of LinkedIn, in breach of the General Regulations for Personal Data Protection (GDPR). To add more users to its base, which is about 600 million.
The DPC's research with LinkedIn goes back to 2017, since the users of the new site question their accusation of heightening their height. In fact, the social network has acknowledged that United States offices have obtained 18 million email addresses, unrelated members, in a non-transparent way, to show advertisements on Facebook.
"Complaints have been solved successfully. LinkedIn performs immediate actions for the purpose of causing a complaint to stop the processing of data for the purpose," said DPC for TechCrunch.
The investigations did not stop at this time, because the DPC decided to make a deeper inspection LinkedIn proposed a network of professional connections, which made it difficult for users to overcome a major problem for social networking people. Of course, he used private data from his partners.
Meanwhile, Denis Kelleher, European, Middle East, and African-American Leader of the company (EMEA) said the company itself represents that they have forgiven these actions and have cooperated with the DPC. resolution of complaints.
"We take the right steps and we will not be able to change the way that happens again.In the audit, we also identified additional areas, where we can improve the privacy of non-member data and, therefore, voluntarily change our practices, "said Kelleher.
In this case, before the execution of the GDPR, the DPC asked for the LinkedIn instruction, canceled through the Irish subsidiary the process prior to the processing of preliminary data and related to the process before May 25, 2018, date GDPR came into effect.
