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I don't see why linkedin should be allowed to monetize it if other companies aren't. If they just monetized the website via ads it would be fine, but since they

I don't see why linkedin should be allowed to monetize it if other companies aren't. If they just monetized the website via ads it would be fine, but since they sell your aggregated data to people I don't see why other data brokers shouldn't be able to also sell your publicly available data. Linkedin as a data broker and linkedin as a website are two unrelated businesses, and extending dominance in one to the other is cause for anti competitive action from the government, HiQ already won in lower courts which is why this has gone this far.

cwkoss 5y ago
Well I'd like to see some regulation on commercial data brokers too. I think individuals should have the right to know whether they are in datasets and the right to be deleted from that dataset upon request if they never gave direct consent to the entity holding their data. It seems extreme from where we are now, but maybe data brokers should be required to notify people when they're added to a dataset without direct consent, including instructions on how to be removed if they don't want to be included.