Tag: LinkedIn’s

27 SEP

Experts debate the ethics of LinkedIn’s algorithm experiments on 20M users

Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg / Contributor | Bloomberg) This month, LinkedIn researchers revealed in Science that the company spent five years quietly researching more than 20 million users. By tweaking the professional networking platform’s algorithm, researchers were trying to determine through A/B testing whether users end up with more job opportunities when they connect with known […]

09 NOV

“Resume Assistant” uses LinkedIn’s data to make Word a better résumé builder

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Writing and updating your résumé is a task that few of us enjoy. Microsoft is hoping to make it a little less painful with a new feature coming to Word called Resume Assistant. Resume Assistant will detect that you’re writing a résumé and offer insights and suggestions culled from LinkedIn. LinkedIn is […]

30 AUG

U.S. judge cracks down on LinkedIn’s abuse of computer break-in law

Good news out of a court in San Francisco: a judge just issued an early ruling against LinkedIn’s abuse of the notorious Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to block a competing service from perfectly legal uses of publicly available data on its website. LinkedIn’s behavior is just the sort of bad development we expected […]