Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from Local App Stores

Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by FT_intern on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:38PM (#13346122)

I'm not sure why LinkedIn is being targeted for privacy concerns. The entire point of the site is having a presentable, public profile. Most users want others to see them in the way that their LinkedIn profile depicts them to be. A large percentage of LinkedIn users purposely make almost all of their LinkedIn information publicly available.

This is as opposed to more private data like personal, private messages on social network sites (I assume most LinkedIn messages are professional and tame), browsing history, etc.

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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by mgbmtl on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:50PM (#13346209)

Russia requires that Russian citizens (even those living abroad more than 6 months per year) declare their foreign bank accounts.

Linkedin private conversations are a good way to investigate if they are having undeclared revenue from another country.

(sure, it's easy to avoid, and so is using Facebook Messenger / private chat.. yet people still mostly default to that because it's easier)

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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by mattnewton on Saturday January 07, 2017 @04:22PM (#13346722)

As suggested elsewhere, the law might cite privacy but really seems to be about Russian government access to the data.

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