Re:LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says...
by phasefactor on Thursday May 07, 2026 @07:44AM
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Love it, the article referring to a statement by a LinkedIn spokesperson: "The first part of that statement is false, as you can see from the screenshot above. Given the obvious untrustworthiness of that half of the statement, we didn't bother wasting any time trying to evaluate the second part."
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Re:LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says...
by noutella on Thursday May 07, 2026 @08:15AM
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They do say they won’t bother, but the rest of the article is actually precisely covering this second point, aka Article 15 of LK Privacy Policy
Re:LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says...
by loloquwowndueo on Thursday May 07, 2026 @08:43AM
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Rhetorical argument is rhetorical?
Re:LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says...
by SAI_Peregrinus on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:15AM
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It's covering article 15 of the GDPR, not of LinkedIn's Privacy Policy.
Re:LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says...
by SAI_Peregrinus on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:16AM
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Also, I just checked, and LinkedIn's privacy policy page doesn't contain any information about who viewed my profile in the last year. No usernames, no company names, it's just a generic privacy policy. So the data isn't there either.
Re:LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says...
by elsjaako on Thursday May 07, 2026 @09:46AM
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To be technically correct: if even a single non-premium member can, for some reason, see who viewed their profile, then the statement "only Premium members can see who has viewed their profile" is false.
So technically, you can't say that the first part of the statement is false from the screenshot.
Re:LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says...
by huhkerrf on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:27PM
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But the statement wasn't false, was it? I'm not a paying member of LinkedIn, and I can see who visited my profile.
Re:LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says...
by xerox13ster on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:36PM
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What you have is the ability to see every 5th person who entered your house.
Re:LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says...
by thrance on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:12PM
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Seriously, this is what I miss the most in legacy media. Much too often "journalists" will simply relay politicians' statements uncritically, when they're obviously fallacious or straight lies. This is very refreshing on The Register's part.