A prominent data protection group filed a complaint in Austria against the LinkedIn platform, on the grounds of selling user data.
Noyb, an abbreviation for None of Your Business (None of Your Business), based in Vienna, said that it had submitted the complaint to the Austrian Data Protection Authority on behalf of a LinkedIn user requesting access to his personal data, according to what Agence France-Presse reported.
The group added that the user is demanding “a response to the request to access his data,” and that a fine be imposed on LinkedIn.
According to Noib, the Microsoft-owned platform invokes data protection reasons to justify non-compliance with data access requests.
Meanwhile, Noib says that the company is asking users to subscribe to a paid membership service if they want to know who visited their personal pages.
“People have the right to obtain their personal data for free,” said Martin Baumann, a data protection lawyer at Nuep.
