Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Pronounced On Thursday, October 24, LinkedIn (Microsoft) was fined a total of 310 million euros and banned from bringing its practices into compliance with the GDPR. The group was found guilty of a lack of legality, integrity and transparency in the processing of its users' personal data for behavioral analysis (Article 6 of the GDPR, Article 5-1.a of the GDPR) and targeting (Articles 13-1.c and 14-1. c). It imposes on its users checked boxes by default and tacit contractual provisions for data processing.

to remember The association La Quadrature du Net filed a series of complaints with France's CNIL in August 2018 against GAFA. The DPC acted as the lead supervisory authority as LinkedIn's headquarters were located responsible for data processing in Ireland. “The personal data in question includes data provided directly to LinkedIn by its members (first-party data) and data obtained about its members through its third-party partners (third-party data).DPC indicated.