Fairlinked

What we do

As an advocacy group of professional LinkedIn users and businesses who depend on the LinkedIn platform, we investigate, document, and campaign on issues that affect the rights and interests of all of us.

Browsergate

We discovered a massive illegal surveillance operation and privacy breach by Linkedin (Microsoft). Read more about it here:

-> Browsergate - How Linkedin is invading your computer and sharing your data

 

Linkedin App Marketplace

Microsoft prohibits in it’s Terms of Service (Section 8.2.2) the use of any tool.
Any tool at all.
Even a screen reader for visually impaired users would constitute a violation of the user agreement and could be grounds for account suspension.

This makes no sense.

We understand that Microsoft has a legitimate interest in protecting their IT infrastructure and protect their data and their users from malicious actors.

But the answer to this is not a total ban of all tools. (Except Linkedin Sales Naviagtor which makes $1 billion in revenue. No wonder, when all competitors are declared “illegal”.)

The answer should be the same that every other platform on the planet found: A Linkedin App Marketplace.

So we all know which tools we can trust and which are dangerous.
Fair play for all of us.

 

Market Fairness

With the Digital Market Act (DMA), the EU has created a legal framework to ensure big tech is playing fair with everyone and markets are protected.

The EU treats big tech platforms like public infrastructure. If your platform is big enough that people and businesses have no real alternative, you play by public rules.

Microsoft got regulated under the DMA as a ‘gatekeeper technology’ with two of it’s products: Microsoft Windows® and LinkedIn.

In other words: Users and Business who use LinkedIn now have the same rights, they have when they use Windows, iOS, MacOS, Android, Facebook and other dominant platforms.

  • The right to access their data, free of charge, in high quality, in real time
  • The right to not be discriminated against
  • The right to use third-party tools and software without being punished for it
  • The right to take their data and move it to competing services
  • The right to complain to regulators without retaliation
  • The right to fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory treatment

And many more. Instead of complying with these rules, LinkedIn is engaging what can only be described as “Compliance Theater” intentionally misleading the EU Commission and regulators and circumventing the law in every way possible.

We are here to participate in the dialog with regulators and make sure Linkedin and Microsoft is held accountable and respects the law - and our rights.