LinkedIn illegally blocking free accounts from seeing ‘who’s viewed your profile’ data, group alleges
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. Contradictory policy 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