LinkedIn’s Mentioned in the News feature is on hold in the European Union following a report by the Irish Data Protection Commission containing complaints that its algorithms were incorrectly matching members to news articles.
The DPC’s Annual Report for May through December 2018 did not mention LinkedIn by name, simply referring to a professional networking platform.
The key parts of the complaints about LinkedIn were: “In 2018, the DPC received two complaints about a feature on a professional networking platform (the data controller), whereby the data controller sends emails and notifications to a member’s connections and followers to inform them if and when the member is mentioned in the news … In one of the complaints, a media article that set out details of the private life and unsuccessful career of a person of the same name as the complainant was circulated to the complainant’s connections and followers by the data controller … The...
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