LinkedIn fined €310M by Irish DPC
LinkedIn has been fined €310 million (~$335 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for being out of compliance with Articles 5 and 6 of GDPR regarding how it processes data for targeted analysis and behavioral processing. The complaint was made by the French Data Protection Authority to the DPC, which has jurisdiction over the company. Concerns include that consent obtained by LinkedIn from third party vendors was not freely given by users to the company.