The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “LinkedIn’s Latest Lawsuit Is A Great Reminder Of How We Give Up Our Own Privacy”.

Selena Larson says, “On Friday, a judge ruled that LinkedIn must face a lawsuit brought by customerswho claim LinkedIn accessed their external email accounts like Gmail and Yahoo in order to bombard their contacts with unwanted LinkedIn invites.

You’d need to read LinkedIn’s terms of service closely to learn that when you give LinkedIn access to your email accounts, the company pulls data from your emails to recruit new members. And you’d have to read through a lot of verbiage to discover that LinkedIn warns you that it will send out invites that look like they’re from you. Nowhere does it explicitly warn you that LinkedIn will follow up with repeated invites, making you look like a needy friend”.

LinkedIn’s Latest Lawsuit Is A Great Reminder Of How We Give Up Our Own Privacy

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