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LinkedIn processed 18M email addresses of non-users for targeted advertising

4 pointsby edoloughlinover 6 years ago

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greenyodaover 6 years ago
&gt; LinkedIn ... processed the email addresses of about 18 million non-LinkedIn members and targeted these individuals on the Facebook platform.<p>&gt; <i>“The audit identified that LinkedIn Corp was undertaking the pre-computation of a suggested professional network for non-LinkedIn members,” the report said.</i><p>Sounds a lot like Facebook&#x27;s &quot;shadow profiles&quot;.<p>Since the U.S. doesn&#x27;t have a privacy law like GDPR, this is probably perfectly legal here, and I&#x27;m guessing that ad targeting of U.S.-based non-members will continue.
benologistover 6 years ago
So weird that the same company that invented phishing for email passwords turned out to be unethically and hopefully illegally using data.