Hi Rasha - thx. :) Looks like LinkedIn is tweaking this advertising effort after the outcry: http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/08/11/social-ads-update/ On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Dr. Rasha Abdulla wrote:
WOW! Thanks Rick and Meryl for bringing these changes to our attention. The options to change the settings are really "tucked in":) They require some searching. Not sure the average user will ever find them without some clear pointing out.
I know the whole concept of privacy has taken on a new meaning with social networks, but will any degree of privacy ever be respected again?
Best, Rasha
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Meryl Krieger <meryl.krieger@gmail.com> wrote: It's even more insidious than this. Not just the "Manage Social Advertising" but also "Turn on/off data sharing with 3rd party applications<https://www.linkedin.com/settings/data-sharing?goback=%2Enas_*1_*1_*1>" (under Groups, Companies and Applications) and under Accounts "Manage Social Advertising" and the slightly less insidious "Enhanced Advertising."
Best to you all, Meryl
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>wrote:
FYI..... --- rick
LinkedIn pulls Facebook-style stunt
Privacy invasion by default
By Richard Chirgwin
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/11/linkedin_privacy_stuff_up/
Posted in Security, 11th August 2011 02:00 GMT
LinkedIn has become the latest social networking site to decide that new features can be added and switched on by default, and users don’t have to be notified.
The feature allows LinkedIn to use profile information like names and photos in third-party advertising, and seems to have been first noticed by blogger Steve Woodruff here.
The feature – hidden away in the Orwellian-named “Manage Social Advertising” option – has to be switched off through a user’s account settings. Permission for this is tucked away in a new condition in LinkedIn’s Terms of Use, which makes it an opt-out feature.
Already, Radio Netherlands Worldwide has reported that the new profile setting may breach Dutch privacy law. The CBP, The Netherlands’ data protection agency, says the use of LinkedIn members’ photographs can only be used in advertising material with the users’ explicit consent.
The Radio Netherlands piece notes that the Dutch view is in line with that of the EU Data Protection Working Party, and also states that LinkedIn failed to properly notify users of the change. ® _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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