US library locks horns with LinkedIn over privacy concerns

San Jose, A library in the US has locked horns with Microsoft-owned job seeking app LinkedIn over privacy concerns after the latter began demanding personal information of people who wished to access its online classes on the platform.
Citing information breach concerns, the Director of San Jose Public Library, Jill Bourne, has decided that if LinkedIn does not continue to allow library patrons to access its online classes confidentially and under its former name — Lynda.com — the library would have to drop the service, San Jose Spotlight reported on Thursday.
Lynda.com was founded in 1995 by digital special effects animator Lynda Weinman as an online support system for her books and lectures. In 2002, Lynda.com started offering online courses which were accessible to card holders by signing into the library’s website using their card number and a PIN.