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Relatedly — the court found that LinkedIn was selling a very similar dataset to the one they were attempting to cut off — so the claim that they were protecting

Relatedly — the court found that LinkedIn was selling a very similar dataset to the one they were attempting to cut off — so the claim that they were protecting customers' privacy was stretched

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unityByFreedom 5y ago
Haha what a joke. Do you have a link for that?
- FrenchDevRemote 5y ago
  I think he's talking about the fact that with a premium membership you can have access to turnover rates stats etc...
  - unityByFreedom 5y ago
    Ah okay, thank you. In my book that still makes them hypocrites while their lawyers claim to protect customer privacy by not exposing such data. They should drop their claims and focus on improving the product.
1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
From the opinion: Finally, LinkedIns asserted private business interests protecting its members data and the investment made in developing its platform and enforcing its User Agreements prohibitions on automated scraping are relatively weak. ... Further, there is evidence that LinkedIn has itself developed a data analytics tool similar to HiQs products, undermining LinkedIns claim that it has its members privacy interests in mind."