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LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall

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Data Subject Rights LinkedIn tracks the visits to profile pages. However, if you want to see who has visited your own profile, you have to pay. The Microsoft subsidiary uses these and other ‘insights’ as an incentive for people to sign up for its paid Premium membership. It is unclear whether this tracking of visitors is legal. What is clear, however, is that if this data is displayed as part of a premium membership, it should also be accessible in response to an access request under Article 15 GDPR. But LinkedIn refuses to comply – and suddenly cites alleged data protection concerns that supposedly only arise in the case of an access request. Complaint against LinkedIn (DE)Selling data: Yes! Right to access: No? LinkedIn is constantly trying to entice its users into signing up for a paid premium membership. This is primarily promoted through a feature that allows users to view a list of all visitors to their profile over the past 365 days. Many other providers also attempt to use user

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