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LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit

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Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit

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Post by waterfowl »

vonmoltke wrote: post #10
waterfowl wrote: post #5

Ugh 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.

I'm pretty early career(graduated in 2012) and even I get harassed on the regular. Maybe they bother younger people more because they think we're less expensive(which is generally true) but the only "legit" linkedin recruiters I ever heard from seemed like Google/FB/Palantir/etc"spam every graduating CS kid in x region" as an invitation to apply rather than a normal "recruiting for a specific opening" type thing.

Maybe I just have a shitty linkedin(but it does say plz no recruiters on it)

Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit

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Post by jlarocco »

waterfowl wrote: post #5

Ugh 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 agree with you about Linkedin for computer jobs, but monster.com and the other job sites are the same way. When I post an updated resume on monster.com, I have scummy recruiters calling me the very next day. So that's not a Linkedin problem, it's a shitty recruiting/hiring in the IT world problem.

I don't think it's so bad for other professions, though. My girlfriend has found a job through her Linkedin contacts, and a friend of mine who does sales has found a job through his network there, too.

Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit

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Post by phkahler »

Linked-In used to put up a message wanting to "verify" my email address and ask for a password. I made it a point to never ever give them my email password because I thought they'd help themselves. Anyone know if they do? I also gave my linked-in account it's own password in case they might try do something crappy like trying to get at my email assuming its the same password. It's not just them, half the apps on Google Play want access to my contacts, texts, and/or location - stuff the app itself has no use for.

Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit

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Post by BSousa »

J_Darnley wrote: post #8

While it may be a worthwhile case my solution to the few linkedin emails I received was to mark them as spam and move on.

I had to create a rule in gmail. Marking them as spam didn't seem to work too well and still a lot slipped through. Now anything that has linkedin.com in subject, from, to, and body is automatically deleted.

Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit

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Post by cyber »

phkahler wrote: post #16

Linked-In used to put up a message wanting to "verify" my email address and ask for a password. I made it a point to never ever give them my email password because I thought they'd help themselves. Anyone know if they do? I also gave my linked-in account it's own password in case they might try do something crappy like trying to get at my email assuming its the same password. It's not just them, half the apps on Goog…

Ideally, you should be using a unique password at every site. There are plenty of secure password storage tools to help you keep track.

That way, even if there is a site breach, your other accounts are not at risk.

Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit

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Post by aendruk »

adwordsjedi wrote: post #15

I'd appreciate if they let me unsubscribe from their damn emails on a catch all account where I get a former employee's emails. They make you log-in to opt out and I'm not about to reset the guy's password in case he still uses linkedin.

They don't make you log in. Use this form [1] and they'll blacklist your email address system-wide [2]. Be sure to include any spelling variations (e.g. an optional dot) that may be in your contacts' address books:

  Please add my email addresses to the Do Not Contact List:
  
  andrew@example.com
  and.rew@example.com
  throwaway@example.com
  
  Thank you,
  
  Andrew
I did this in April and haven't since received anything but a confirmation from their customer support.

[1]: https://help.linkedin.com/app/ask/path/dnca

[2]: https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/426/

Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

waterfowl wrote: post #5

Ugh 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'm working with my employer (a consulting firm) to try and build a solution to this issue. We're trying to keep recruiters out of the loop and place value directly on contractors.

Keep your eye out this weekend, we're going to go live and leave another post here.

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