There's an old saying with social media: the users are the product. That used to mean that if you posted on a service like Reddit, then your data would be sold to advertisers, either individually or ...

LinkedIn is facing two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browsers to determine which extensions they’re running. Two class action complaints were filed by different law firms on behalf of ...

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered LinkedIn to stop blocking a startup company from scraping LinkedIn personal profiles for data. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen has sided with hiQ Labs, a ...

LinkedIn allegedly scans your browser extensions without consent, transmitting data to third parties and violating EU privacy laws.

If ChatGPT starts asking you about your *shudder* endorsements any time soon, we now have at least half an idea why: U.S. users of “social media site for co-workers you don’t want to be actual friends ...

The analytics company HiQ should be free to scrape publicly available data about LinkedIn's users, the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation and others argue in new court papers. "Open ...