LinkedIn hit with 310 million euro fine for data privacy violations

London: European Union regulators slapped LinkedIn on Thursday  October 24, 2024 with a 310 million euro (USD 335 million) fine for violations of the bloc’s stringent data privacy rules.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission reprimanded the Microsoft-owned professional social networking site over concerns about the ‘lawfulness, fairness and transparency’ of its personal data processing for advertising purposes.

The Dublin-based watchdog is LinkedIn’s lead privacy regulator in the 27-nation EU because that’s where the company’s European headquarters is based.

The watchdog said it carried out an investigation that found LinkedIn did not have a lawful basis to gather data so it could target users with online ads, which is a breach of the privacy rules known as General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. It ordered LinkedIn to comply with the rules.
Processing personal data ‘without an appropriate legal basis is a clear and serious violation’ of the right to data protection in the EU, Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said in a statement.

LinkedIn said it that while it believes it has been ‘in compliance’ with the rules, it’s working to ensure its ‘ad practices’ meet the requirements.

                                                  ( Source : AP )


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