LinkedIn / HiQ Labs 2017 ff

LinkedIn allows users to create profiles and then establish connections with other users. Users create a profile on the site; they can choose from various levels of privacy protection. They can keep their faces private or make them viewable by direct connections to a broader network of relationships with all other LinkedIn members or the entire public. When users choose the last option, their profiles are viewable by anyone online. LinkedIn also allows access to public profiles via search engines such as Google. Competitive Monitoring systematically reads data from LinkedIn.

Source: www.hiqlabs.com/legal (12/2017)

Data analyst hiQ tells employers which of their employees are at the most significant being recruited away. The company sells information that hiQ generates through LinkedIn users” publicly available profiles. HiQ could also make data from users available even after those users have removed it from their profiles or deleted them altogether.

LinkedIn allows users to create profiles and then establish connections with other users. Users create a profile on the site; they can choose from various levels of privacy protection. They can keep their faces entirely private or make them viewable by their direct connections to a broader network of relationships with all other LinkedIn members or the entire public. When users choose the last option, their profiles are viewable by anyone online. LinkedIn also allows access to public profiles via vertical search engines. Competitive Monitoring listens to LinkedIn

LinkedIn points to the interest that some users may have in preventing employers or other parties from tracking changes they have made to their profiles. LinkedIn posts that when a user updates his countenance, that action may signal to his employer that he is looking for a new position.

LinkedIn states that over 50 million LinkedIn members have used a “Do Not Broadcast” feature that prevents the site from notifying other users when a member makes profile changes. This feature is available even when a profile is public.

LinkedIn also points to specific user complaints it has received objecting to the use of data by third parties. In particular, two users complained that they had previously featured on their profile but, subsequently removed, remained viewable via third parties.

LinkedIn argues that it and its users face substantial harm absent an injunction; if hiQ can continue its data collection.

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