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LinkedIn processed 18M email addresses of non-users for targeted advertising (irishtimes.com)
4 points by edoloughlin on Nov 23, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> LinkedIn ... processed the email addresses of about 18 million non-LinkedIn members and targeted these individuals on the Facebook platform.

> β€œThe audit identified that LinkedIn Corp was undertaking the pre-computation of a suggested professional network for non-LinkedIn members,” the report said.

Sounds a lot like Facebook's "shadow profiles".

Since the U.S. doesn't have a privacy law like GDPR, this is probably perfectly legal here, and I'm guessing that ad targeting of U.S.-based non-members will continue.


So weird that the same company that invented phishing for email passwords turned out to be unethically and hopefully illegally using data.




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