Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner says LinkedIn misued data from 18 million non-members

Microsoft's LinkedIn professional networking app has admitted to using the email addresses of 18 million non-members in a "non-transparent" manner. LinkedIn confessed to the transgression after it was called out in a report from Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) that was released on Friday (via TechCrunch). The DPC report covered the first half of 2018.

Stemming from a single complaint made in 2017, an investigation found that LinkedIn was using the 18 million email addresses to get more people to sign up for the service. The DPC found that LinkedIn in the ...

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