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They do log into people's email accounts, to see the address book. They are saying they have permission, and I'm sure they do in a strict, legal sense, if you r
by cschmidt 13y ago
They do log into people's email accounts, to see the address book. They are saying they have permission, and I'm sure they do in a strict, legal sense, if you read all their TOS.
The issue is that they are trying to get as many people to agree as possible, so they are being sneaky about it. People don't know what they're going to do, even though they clicked on a box. Legally correct, yet scummy.
- busterarm 13y agoAbsolutely. It's a totally scummy company. I don't and have never had a LinkedIn account. I'm just trying to argue that why should a company even be trying to get access to your email account? They shouldn't be trying to defend the practice. What does this mean for all of the email providers out there who in their own TOS say that they're providing a service and that you can't give any other party permission to access your account? Can LinkedIn be absolved of blame fot accessing something you were never allowed to give them access to to begin with?
- zeckalpha 13y agoSo many sites/apps do this sort of thing as "growth hacking". If this goes through, it will set a precedent allowing for many many other suits. I think where the line will be drawn is how well were users informed of what they were consenting to. This will generally improve the quality of ToS, eventually. Hopefully. It also could potentially kill off the business growth model that a lot of social sites use to build themselves off others, e.g. Zynga on Facebook. This is a bigger deal than people are making it.
- DerpDerpDerp 13y agoIf this gets marked as legal, I'm going in to the business of legally phishing your passwords.
- zeckalpha 13y agoThat would violate other laws.