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Europe considers using LinkedIn’s data for advertisements as a potential topic for a DSA inquiry

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Europe eyes LinkedIn’s use of data for ads in another DSA askMicrosoft-owned professional social network, LinkedIn, is the latest to get a formal request for information (RFI) from the EU. Of specific concern is whether LinkedIn is breaching the DSA’s prohibition on larger platforms’ use of sensitive data for ad targeting. Profiling based on such data to target ads is banned under the law. The DSA also empowers the EU to impose fines for incorrect, incomplete, or misleading information in response to an RFI. LinkedIn isn’t the only platform to be in the EU’s spotlight when it comes to use of data for ads.

Prominent Startup Accuses Carta, the Cap Table Management Firm, of Unethical Tactics

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But a prominent customer is now accusing Carta of misusing sensitive information that startups entrust to the company in pursuit of its own goals. The claim is raising wider questions about how Carta operates, even as Carta argues the incident was isolated. Feeling betrayed by Carta, Saarinen wrote on LinkedIn, “This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups. Ward also said the email to the Linear investor is not something that Carta condones. The cap table business and the CartaX (private stock liquidity) business are separate business units with separate teams and leadership.

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