European alternatives to LinkedIn
The professional social network and recruiting platform, owned by Microsoft since 2016. It runs on Microsoft's US-governed infrastructure and builds detailed profiles from your career and contacts.
Company information about LinkedIn
- Company
- LinkedIn Corporation
- Parent company
- Microsoft Corporation
- Headquarters
- Sunnyvale, United States
- Founded
- 2003
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- No
- Infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure
Why people switch away from LinkedIn
European alternatives to LinkedIn
German non-profit social network founded by Eugen Rochko in 2016. Federated and open-source, with no ads, no algorithms, and no single point of control. Used by 47M+ accounts across 80,000+ independent servers. Hosts the European Commission's official server.
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Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.