Yeah, once integrated, I'd be worried if I was an MS employee using it to scout competitors and talk to recruiters.
This also gives MS some great data to possibly feed into the team that manages their investment portfolio. How valuable would it be to have a (admittedly not perfect) feed of employee growth/deflation for various companies? That would also provide a ton of leverage for future acquisitions, etc.
There's a LOT you can learn from LinkedIn data if you have access to the unfiltered data.
Exactly! And the gold weapon would be able to see all employees' corporate and private emails, along with their search queries. Uh oh.
That's the best remark in the whole thread. Employee poking at competitors. Sales teams looking up the right people to connect with. Thanks to the LinkedIn share button, like Facebook, they can have parts of your browsing history. I don't even know whether the purchase should be allowed.