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LinkedIn sued over claims they hacked customer's email accounts

article published on 21 September, 2013

LinkedIn, the world's most popular professional-networking site, has been sued this week by customers who are accusing the site of "appropriating their identities for marketing purposes by hacking into their external e-mail accounts and downloading contacts' addresses." The customers hope to make the suit into a group class action, and have asked a federal judge to ban the company from ... [ read the full article ]

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dp70
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_ 		22. September 2013 @ 05:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They harvested the add book of a Federal Judge, a friend. First I got an offer to join under her name, and then came the green tea adverts, with her as the "sender". I did not join and have them blocked as unsafe.
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Menion
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_ 		22. September 2013 @ 10:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This explains the strange LinkedIn adverts in my email from people I worked on a project only once in college who just happened to be in my contacts list who I have never spoken too since. I always wondered about that
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ddp
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_ 		22. September 2013 @ 12:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
got a LinkedIn message to be added to 1 of their member's contacts, i never did even when i think i knew who the individual was.
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SuckRaven
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_ 		22. September 2013 @ 15:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Unfortunately, the damage is done. LinkedIn will profit handsomely from the data mining, while if the class action succeeds, each person will be cut a check for 15 bucks. Welcome to Amurricah ! In other words, companies don't give two flying fucks about your right to privacy, and their EULAs about anything to that effect are merely empty words. They know exactly what they're doing. They will gladly settle a class action for 50 million, when the data they obtained will be worth many, many times that to them. Unfortunately, technology is one of those Pandora's box things.
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