A LinkedIn feature that allows paid subscribers to view a list of visitors to their profile should be made available to all EU users free of charge to comply with the region’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a legal complaint launched by the None of Your Business (NOYB) digital rights group has claimed.
Filed this week in an Austrian court, the group’s argument is that LinkedIn’s ‘Who’s Viewed Your Profile’ feature contravenes the GDPR Article 15, which covers a subject’s right of access to their own data.
NOYB has a history of taking on tech companies. In 2025, Google was hit by a €325 million ($381 million) fine by French privacy regulator, the CNIL, over its data collection and advertising policies after a complaint by the group.
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LinkedIn began offering users the ability to see who has viewed their profile around 2007, later turning this into a paywalled perk in a move that pre-dated the arrival of GDPR in 2018.
According to NOYB, this commercializati
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LinkedIn is testing a new AI feature, Crosscheck, which allows users to compare several popular AI models directly on the platform. Users enter prompts into Crosscheck and receive two different responses generated by competing AI models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
After the user selects the best response, the model behind each answer is revealed. LinkedIn product manager Hari Srinivasan describes the service as a kind of blind taste test for AI models, according to Engadget.
Crosscheck works only with text, but has no limits on the number of questions. At the same time, LinkedIn shares anonymized user data with the AI companies to provide insights into how the models perform across different professional groups.
The feature is initially available to LinkedIn Premium subscribers in the US, with plans to expand to more countries and free users soon.
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