[giancarlostoro]

I think that's fine, but I also think the end-user should decide. With Google (edit: I meant Facebook) I'm able to determine whether or not I want to show up in search results. This shouldn't be an absolute is or isn't public situation.

[gravitas]

LinkedIn already allows discreet control over your profile's public visibility along with the ability to micro-manage some of it, the URL you're looking for: https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/settings

[tus88]

You can decide to not use linked in, and use a service that does not make profiles public.

[ludamad]

"If your apple looks a little banged up, eat an orange"

[Gene_Parmesan]

Even better, the decision here is only concerning profiles of people who have elected to make that profile public. It's very simple to make your LinkedIn profile private.

[giancarlostoro]

The concern I had is that the court forces LinkedIn profiles public regardless of user settings. Courts sometimes go a little further. I'm sure LinkedIn will do their best to not allow private profiles to be crawled.

[chatmasta]

The challenge for LinkedIn is that they still want google to crawl them.