Is LinkedIn selling your Data!

Is LinkedIn selling your Data!

You can find article after article on this topic and the factual answer is YES!

https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions/sales-navigator is one way of doing that! Recruitment agents can sign up to access every single user on the platform!

So LinkedIn is no longer a business network that it once told people it was but a Recruiter tool where the end user updates his own information.

Stories circulate out like these ones LinkedIn User? Your Data May Be Up For Sale or LinkedIn Accused Of Secretly Selling Your Professional Data To Potential Employers but how do you protect yourself? Well the reality is you can't and LinkeDIn does not care about you the individual.

Time and time again we have reported to LinkedIn Fake accounts but in order to not lose the total number of users they merely block the person complaining from seeing that profile.

Lets look at a few recruitment profiles like to Singapore as part of a keyword search on their sight.

SG PRIMESTAFF PMET JOBS this profile has over 500 connections and yet despite it being reported several times LinkedIn allows the account to exist in complete breach of the User Agreement! 
Singapore Jobs Singapore Jobs  This profile is based in India so usual suspects looking to collect data using keywords, why is this account still there?
Singapore Jobs This profile is based in Malaysia and has Zero connections, why does it even exist?
Epass Jobs Singapore  1 connection and zero activity, why does it exist? to check peoples profiles without raising attention of the real person sitting in HR somewhere! So that makes it a FAKE account!
Just Recruit Singapore  500+ connections linked to an actual company here in Singapore and registered by MOM EA12C6295. Why does LinkedIn allow them to use their company name as their profile? Because the ywant them to sign up to their package!
Dyson Singapore HR 45 connections of a major British design and manufacturing company showing them to be cheap and unprofessional! Why did their management allow them to create this?

First Impression Jobs App 500+ connections, supposedly the Managing Director but is representing an app related to recruitment instead of the persons real name, how odd!