In a decision published on Thursday 24 October, the DPC, the Irish Data Protection Commission, announced that it had imposed a fine of €310 million on the professional social network LinkedIn– owned by the American giant Microsoft – for breaching the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with regard to targeted advertising.
According to the DPC, “the consent obtained by” LinkedIn from its users for the use of their personal data “was not freely given, sufficiently...