LinkedIn public data News

Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profile, has been extracted and posted for sale, Microsoft Corp.’s professional networking site said based on an investigation. The incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the …

A U.S. federal judge on Monday ruled that Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn unit cannot prevent a startup from accessing public profile data, in a test of how much control a social media site can wield over information its users have deemed …