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|Slack threatened to deactivate the Slack workspace and delete all message history of a nonprofit unless they agreed to a price hike of $200k yearly and also pay an extra $50k within a week. There were no prior warnings from Slack. A few years prior to this incident, they had agreed to migrate from the free nonprofit plan to a $5k per year plan. | |Slack threatened to deactivate the Slack workspace and delete all message history of a nonprofit unless they agreed to a price hike of $200k yearly and also pay an extra $50k within a week. There were no prior warnings from Slack. A few years prior to this incident, they had agreed to migrate from the free nonprofit plan to a $5k per year plan. | ||
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-18 |title=Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase |url=https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250930075808/https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack |archive-date=2025-09-30}}</ref> | |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-18 |title=Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase |url=https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250930075808/https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack |archive-date=2025-09-30}}</ref> | ||
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|LinkedIn changes their [[terms of service]] enabling them to use user data to train content-generating AI models. The data includes details from user profiles and public posts. Users have to opt out in the settings page to prevent this from happening to their data. | |||
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-10-04 |title=Update to our Terms and data use |url=https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a8059228 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250926155935/https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a8059228 |archive-date=2025-09-26 |website=LinkedIn Help}}</ref> | |||
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