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[INFO] New LinkedIn Privacy Policy

I received the following message from a trusted contact and friend and I am posting it for your awareness and consideration.

Without attracting too much publicity, LinkedIn has updated their privacy conditions. Without any action from your side, LinkedIn is now permitted to use you name and picture in any of their advertisements.

  • If you’re not in favor of such a policy below are the steps to not allow Linked in to use your name:
  • Place the cursor on your name at the top right corner of the screen. From the small pull down menu that appears, select “settings”
  • Then click “Account” on the left/bottom
  • In the column next to Account, select the option “Manage Social Advertising” 
  • Finally uncheck the box “LinkedIn may use my name and photo in social advertising” and Save

Please pass this along if you do not want your name and picture used in their advertisements.  Personally, they can pay me to use mine, but they are not getting it for free.

About Chris Colotti

Chris is currently a Consulting Architect in the Pre-Sales Solutions group of the Global Services Organization at VMware. He focuses on designing and integrating Cloud solutions for the field and VMware customers. Chris is amongst the first VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX#37), and author of multiple white papers. Most recently Chris has become heavily involved with fitness as a Team Beachbody Coach through P90X and other Beachbody Programs. Although Technology is his day job, Chris is passionate about fitness after losing 60 pounds himself in the last few years. Now he spreads both the word of technology and fitness along with the Team Beachbody Business through both his blogs.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/umf97 Michael Thompson

    They have removed this from the privacy policy.

    • http://www.chriscolotti.us/ Chris Colotti

      I guess the rash pf bad feedback made them change it.  I’m sure like everyone else they will add something else later that is as bad.

  • guest

    They constantly breach own privacy policy and it seems their privacy policy is a sham just so it looks like they have one. I have a private profile, which means I have selected to have my profile only accessible to my existing contacts and no one else. I have opted out of their advertising and disabled all other feeds, public info, etc. BUT, my full name and profile are still being fed as LinkedIn suggestion to other LinkedIn members based on LinkedIn’s stats of who may know me or have worked with me. I wrote to LinkedIn asking to stop this as I do NOT consent to LinkedIn using my profile to grow its database or members’ networks ad I choose my own and have elected to have a strictly private profile. Do you think LinkedIN cares? NO. And this is why people should massively shift to XING. XING has greater respect and would not engage in daily violations of your profile with “suggestions” and ads.

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