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LinkedIn Fined €310m By Irish Data Protection Commission

Heavy fine for LinkedIn, after Irish data protection watchdog cites GDPR violations with people's personal data for targeted ads

3 weeks ago

LinkedIn Suspends Use Of UK Data For AI

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn suspends use of UK user data to train generative AI after concerns expressed by data protection office

2 months ago

LinkedIn To Pay $6.625m In Ad Lawsuit Settlement

Microsoft's LinkedIn agrees to $6.625m settlement with advertisers over alleged overcharging based on inflated ad metrics

4 months ago

LinkedIn Disables Ad Feature In Europe Over Targeting Concerns

LinkedIn disables feature allowing advertisers to target European users based on membership in groups after concerns over DSA compliance

5 months ago

LinkedIn Admits Premium Subscriptions Bring In $1.7bn

LinkedIn makes rare disclosure, and admits premium subscription business delivered $1.7 billion in revenue in 2023

8 months ago

UK Government, Tech Giants Agree To Tackle Online Fraud

Series of pledges from big name tech firms in agreement with UK government to protect people from online fraud

12 months ago

China Not A Focus For Microsoft, Says Satya Nadella – Report

Microsoft boss confirms Microsoft is fine avoiding China, amid the ongoing national security concerns with Beijing

1 year ago

LinkedIn To Cut More Jobs, In Second Round Of Layoffs

Another 668 people across LinkedIn's engineering, product, talent and finance teams are to be made redundant, in second tranche of…

1 year ago

LinkedIn To Shutter China Site, Cut 716 Jobs

Microsoft-owned business social network LinkedIn to close remaining China job application service, cut 716 jobs amidst tougher regulation

2 years ago

Government App Targets Fake Profiles Used By Foreign Spies

New government app helps identify fake social media profiles from sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook amidst 'industrial scale' espionage…

3 years ago

US Court Rules Data Scraping On Public Websites Is Legal

User privacy blow. Scraping data from online LinkedIn profiles is legal, Appeal Court in the United States tells Microsoft

3 years ago

LinkedIn Overcharging Lawsuit Dismissed By US Judge

Lawsuit alleging Microsoft's LinkedIn division had inflated its advertising metrics for video ads watched is dismissed by US judge

3 years ago

Microsoft Shutters LinkedIn In China Over Increasing Censorship

LinkedIn, China's last major US-operated social network, is being closed down, due to Beijing's increasing censorship of the online world

3 years ago

Data On 700 Million LinkedIn Users For Sale On Dark Web – Report

LinkedIn denies the personal data of 700 million users for sale on Dark Web was a result of a data…

3 years ago

LinkedIn Data Of 500 Million Users Being Sold Online – Report

Scraped data of nearly half a billion LinkedIn users is being sold online, with two million records being published as…

4 years ago

Salesforce’s LinkedIn Account Hijacked With Black Lives Matter Post

CRM giant Salesforce confirms its LinkedIn social media account have been compromised, following unauthorised BLM post last week

4 years ago

New LinkedIn Analytics Job Recruiter Tools Provide ‘Talent Insights’

When it arrives in 2018, LinkedIn Talent Insights provide data analytics that give recruiters a clearer, more complete picture of…

7 years ago

Russian Hackers Stole And Traded British MPs’ Passwords

Emails and passwords belonging to British MPs and high level public servants traded online

7 years ago

LinkedIn, HPE Create Open19 Foundation For Open Data Centre Servers

Watch out OCP? Open19 Foundation will push its data centre blueprint for next generation, standardised servers

7 years ago

Microsoft Connects LinkedIn To Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 users will be able to draw on LinkedIn sales data in the first fruit of Microsoft's £20bn acquisition…

8 years ago

Microsoft Appoints LinkedIn’s Kevin Scott As CTO

Scott will be responsible for driving professional cloud and network services at the Redmond company

8 years ago

LinkedIn Gets A Facelift With New Desktop Design

LinkedIn promises improved user experience with biggest ever desktop redesign

8 years ago

LinkedIn And eBay Founders Throw £16.5m At AI Ethics Fund

The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund will explore the development of AI from a non-technical viewpoint

8 years ago

LinkedIn’s Lynda.com Suffers Data Breach, 9.5 Million Users Alerted To The Hack

55,000 users have had their passwords reset after someone gained access to a database containing user information

8 years ago

Microsoft Offers Remedies To EC In Bid To Gain £21bn LinkedIn Takeover Approval

Microsoft has offered to sweeten the deal for European regulators so it can get LinkedIn approval, despite Salesforce and other…

8 years ago

Russia To Block LinkedIn Access Over ‘Data Protection Violations’

Access to LinkedIn to be blocked within days over violations of Russia's strict data protection laws

8 years ago

US Names Arrested Russian As Alleged LinkedIn, Dropbox Hacker

Yevigeniy Nikulin, a 29-year-old Moscow resident, allegedly conspired with two others to hack LinkedIn, Dropbox and other sites

8 years ago

Yahoo, LinkedIn, Apple iCloud: 10 Big Data Breaches

Data breaches from hack attacks continue to get bigger and bolder but which of these do you remember?

8 years ago

LinkedIn Learning Launches To Help Seek Out New Skills

New changes include e-learning platform to improve skills amid growing need for talent acquisition

8 years ago