{"id":1007121,"date":"2026-05-07T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007121"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:10:47","slug":"linkedin-faces-complaint-over-its-selling-of-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/linkedin-faces-complaint-over-its-selling-of-user-data\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn faces complaint over its selling of user data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent data protection group on Tuesday filed a complaint in Austria against LinkedIn over the professional networking platform&#8217;s selling of user data.<\/p>\n<p>Vienna-based Noyb &#8212; which stands for &#8220;None of Your Business&#8221; &#8212; said it filed a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority on behalf of a LinkedIn user wanting access to his data.<\/p>\n<p>The user is demanding a &#8220;full response to his access request&#8221;, the group said, adding it was also asking for a fine to be imposed on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent data protection group on Tuesday filed a complaint in Austria against LinkedIn over the professional networking platform&#8217;s selling of user data. Vienna-based Noyb &#8212; which stands for &#8220;None of Your Business&#8221; &#8212; said it filed a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority on behalf of a LinkedIn user wanting access to his data. The user is demanding a &#8220;full response to his access request&#8221;, the group said, adding it was also asking for a fine to be imposed on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007158,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007121\/revisions\/1007158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}