Re: new-ish LinkedIn privacy setting - you'll likely want to opt out

Subject: Re: new-ish LinkedIn privacy setting - you'll likely want to opt out
From: Phil Stokes <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com>
To: Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:45:10 +0700

I'd just like to point out that despite LinkedIn's apparent 'back-peddling', they have not changed the default 'opted in' behaviour as of today (15 Aug). As far as I can tell, all they've done is remove people's names and photos from the initial ad that pops up in favour of a 'n number of your connections are following this advertiser' messgage That's a hotlink, and I suspect still lists your name and possibly photo if clicked on.

There's also quite a few other boxes in your settings you might want to go through one more time, as Bill mentions. There's a lot of stuff 'checked' that you might not want, or might thing was 'unchecked' previously.

Many thanks to Monique and Bill for the heads up on this one!

:)


On 12 Aug 2011, at 03:58, Monique Semp wrote:

> Hello, writers,
>
> (Sorry for the cross-posting; I want to tell as many people as possible so those of you on multiple lists will receive this multiple times.)
>
> I just learned that LinkedIn recently made a change to their privacy settings, and unless you know about it and change it, the default setting allows your name and photo to be used for third-party advertising.
>
> LinkedIn didn’t publicize it much of course. So you’ll likely want to read this, and likely want to opt-out!
>
> Here’s the info: http://brandimpact.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a-box-you-want-to-uncheck-on-linkedin/, and a follow-up post,
> http://brandimpact.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/linkedin-privacy-and-notification-lets-discuss/.
>
> -Monique
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