{"id":241372,"date":"2026-05-07T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/linkedin-illegally-blocking-free-accounts-from-seeing-whos-viewed-your-profile-data-group-alleges\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:25:09","slug":"linkedin-illegally-blocking-free-accounts-from-seeing-whos-viewed-your-profile-data-group-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/linkedin-illegally-blocking-free-accounts-from-seeing-whos-viewed-your-profile-data-group-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn illegally blocking free accounts from seeing &#8216;who&#8217;s viewed your profile&#8217; data, group alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4168576\/linkedin-illegally-blocking-free-accounts-from-seeing-whos-viewed-your-profile-data-group-alleges-2.html\">LinkedIn illegally blocking free accounts from seeing &#8216;who&#8217;s viewed your profile&#8217; data, group alleges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4168576\/linkedin-illegally-blocking-free-accounts-from-seeing-whos-viewed-your-profile-data-group-alleges-2.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4168576\/linkedin-illegally-blocking-free-accounts-from-seeing-whos-viewed-your-profile-data-group-alleges-2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 22:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"right-to-view\">Right to view<\/h2>\n<p>LinkedIn will doubtless point out to the Austrian Data Protection Authority that all users, including free subscribers, can opt out of having their profile visit made visible by toggling off the feature in Settings\/Visibility tab\/\u2019Visibility when viewing other profiles\u2019. Then each visit a user makes to another profile is recorded as one by an \u2018Anonymous LinkedIn Member\u2019. Free users can also see the last five visitors to their profile, as long as those users have not selected this anonymity setting.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible the company will further argue that, under Article 15, the rights of users to know who has viewed their data conflicts with the rights of other users to maintain their own privacy.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted for response, a LinkedIn spokesperson sent the following statement: \u201cThis assertion [by NOYB] is false. Not only is it incorrect that only Premium members can see who has viewed their profile, but we also satisfy GDPR Article 15 by disclosing the information at issue via our Privacy Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4168576\/linkedin-illegally-blocking-free-accounts-from-seeing-whos-viewed-your-profile-data-group-alleges-2.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn illegally blocking free accounts from seeing &#8216;who&#8217;s viewed your profile&#8217; data, group alleges https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4168576\/linkedin-illegally-blocking-free-accounts-from-seeing-whos-viewed-your-profile-data-group-alleges-2.html&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4168576-0-48952800-1778186181-LinkedIN-shutterstock_2506192323.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-241372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-general-data-protection-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241375,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241372\/revisions\/241375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}