GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn
What a silly title. Obviously if a company acquires another company they will acquire the email contacts and accounts as well. And LinkedIn has the right to connect accounts they own across their web properties.<p>The rest of the article is bottom tier conspiracy theory that this is a stealthy way for LinkedIn to secretly sell all their PII. This is dumb for a variety of reasons:<p>1) Linkedin makes all their money selling people ads and recruiting messages, they lose this if they sell direct access to their users.<p>2) 500m emails sale value isn't worth jack shit to a company the size of LI/Microsoft (see point 1).