LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
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Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#2While Koh agreed to throw out claims based on federal wiretap and stored communications claims, she said LinkedIn may have violated California’s right of publicity, which protects against the appropriation of someone’s name or likeness, without their consent, for commercial purposes.
Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#3Hope that LinkedIn lose that suit. I had tonnes of people with me in their address book bombarding me with LinkedIn invitations - it'd make me feel better about that.
Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#4Its about time LinkedIn got call on this. They have been doing this for years.
Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#5Ugh definitely. The awful thing is that they harvest your email from someone's address book and then bombard you with "people you may know" on your actual legitimate Linkedin account(tied into that email).
LinkedIn is a ghetto of recruiters looking for no benefit contract employees("Oh we see you are an EXTREME CUTTING EDGE WEB2.0 NINJA, would you like to take a $50k contract job?"). Does this work on anyone? I can't imagine any legitimate "superstars" actually respond to these folks.
Edit: the really awkward thing is when it starts recommending you one night stands from years ago just because you may have at some point exchanged an email.
Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#6Ugh definitely. The awful thing is that they harvest your email from someone's address book and then bombard you with "people you may know" on your actual legitimate Linkedin account(tied into that email). LinkedIn is a ghetto of recruiters looking for no benefit contract employees("Oh we see you are an EXTREME CUTTING EDGE WEB2.0 NINJA, would you like to take a $50k contract job?"). Does this work on anyone? I can't…
> I can't imagine any legitimate "superstars" actually respond to these folks.
Well, of course not. The goal isn't to get those people. It's to get the people who aren't that good but are just good enough and therefore are actually awed by having someone contact them and refer to them as an extreme cutting edge web 2.0 ninja.
Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#7eat it linkedin. You're a bunch of shitty jerks.
Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#8While it may be a worthwhile case my solution to the few linkedin emails I received was to mark them as spam and move on.
Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#9Ugh definitely. The awful thing is that they harvest your email from someone's address book and then bombard you with "people you may know" on your actual legitimate Linkedin account(tied into that email). LinkedIn is a ghetto of recruiters looking for no benefit contract employees("Oh we see you are an EXTREME CUTTING EDGE WEB2.0 NINJA, would you like to take a $50k contract job?"). Does this work on anyone? I can't…
Facebook does the exact same thing. I keep getting their spam and I don't have an account so they pester me to sign up. Incredible that such big companies get away with this. Even google has joined the legion of spammers with their new 'g+ linkdrive'.
Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#10Ugh definitely. The awful thing is that they harvest your email from someone's address book and then bombard you with "people you may know" on your actual legitimate Linkedin account(tied into that email). LinkedIn is a ghetto of recruiters looking for no benefit contract employees("Oh we see you are an EXTREME CUTTING EDGE WEB2.0 NINJA, would you like to take a $50k contract job?"). Does this work on anyone? I can't…
While I have certainly had my share of clueless recruiters contact me through LinkedIn, I have also had a good number of decent contacts that either didn't pan out or which I just wasn't interested in. I don't get nearly the deluge of contacts that some people here say they get, though.