By akademiotoelektronik, 13/07/2022

The CNIL Survey on the Lusha extension, which displays telephone and email on LinkedIn profiles

Register, install the browser extension then go to any LinkedIn profile to get your email numbers and addresses.It is Lusha's promise, a service reported on Twitter by @paingout who thought of a LinkedIn flaw for a time.In reality, Lusha was cut to display the contact details of natural persons by completing the profiles of the professional network with his own data.

On the LinkedIn file of the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, this surfer obtained an email address and two telephone numbers.And according to our tests, the answering machine of the mobile number belongs to the interested.Better still: out of seven other trials, notably concerning Mounir Mahjoubi and three managers of public business affairs, five proved to be conclusive.Three even presented mobile numbers.

La CNIL enquête sur l'extension Lusha, qui affiche téléphone et email sur des profils LinkedIn

Passed five profiles consulted, on LinkedIn, Twitter or Salesforce, access to the contact details becomes paying.It will cost at least $ 300 a year, for 30 monthly consultations.The service is however already under the gaze of the CNIL."A control has been carried out concerning this company, the consequences are under investigation.In the absence of an establishment on French territory, a measure of international cooperation is envisaged "declares the authority.

But where do these data come from, and what are the appeals?

A very mysterious "lusha database"

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