ryper@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•LinkedIn scraped user data for training AI before updating its terms of service and without obtaining user opt-in consentEnglish
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10 days agoIt’s more about spite at this point
It’s more about spite at this point
The ribbon was introduced in Office 2007. The backsliding started a long time ago.
The terms of service have now been updated, but ordinarily that occurs well before a big change like using user data for a new purpose like this. The idea is it gives users an option to make account changes or leave the platform if they don’t like the changes. Not this time, it seems.
They should be required to delete their training data and start over after people have had a chance to opt in.
This isn’t just in the US; I’ve got the setting in Canada and I’d assume it’s in just about any country where LinkedIn is available that isn’t on the very short list of exceptions.
LinkedIn’s blog post on this isn’t at all apologetic, just “the privacy policy already let us do this but we’ve updated it to be clearer.” I was expecting them to say something accidentally went live early or there was some other mistake. Nope, it’s all according to plan. Fuck you LinkedIn.