Is anyone else sick and tired of getting spammed with email requests to join LinkedIn from family, friends and co-workers? It appears that LinkedIn users are now sick and tired of having their contact lists surreptitiously mined and exploited by the service. From
Bloomberg:
LinkedIn, owner of the
world’s most popular professional-networking website, was sued
by customers who claim the company appropriated their identities
for marketing purposes by hacking into their external e-mail
accounts and downloading contacts’ addresses.
The customers, who aim to lead a group suit against
LinkedIn, asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to bar
the company from repeating the alleged violations and to force
it to return any revenue stemming from its use of their
identities to promote the site to non-members, according to a
court filing . . .
