LinkedIn spokesman Hani Durzy reiterated that the current law doesn't require the company to provide information about data shared for purposes other than direct marketing, and said that the company is "keeping an eye on" the new bill, but hasn't taken a position on it.

WSJ: Online-Data Bill Sets Up Privacy Fight

Although a clause in the 1999 law that set Juki Net up called on the government to submit a broad privacy bill before it could become active, officials point out that the same law placed restrictions on the system it created: the data cannot be shared with (non-governmental) third parties or used for purposes that are not already specified.

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