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According to "Pledge of Privacy"[1], no. It seems they will also modify your outgoing mail to remove the profile info. So in addition to reading your incoming
by cag_ii 13y ago
According to "Pledge of Privacy"[1], no. It seems they will also modify your outgoing mail to remove the profile info.
So in addition to reading your incoming mail they can also modify your outgoing mail as well.
Suppose that user B gets mail from A, then forwards it to C. I'd see why this could be valuable info. for a company like this (and also has a high potential for abuse).
[1. https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/privacy https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/privacy ]
- 0x0 13y agoWow, it even says right there that if you forward or reply via a different account, the full content remains in the message (of course!). I'd imagine the same thing would happen if you moved the message from a folder in one imap account to a folder in another imap account. Nice.
- hamburglar 13y agoMy initial reaction to this blog post was basically revulsion on a gut level, but the more I think about it, the more my revulsion becomes justified on a rational level.
- rahulvohra 13y agoThere are good ways to remove 95%+ of the content even if you forward/reply from a different account. We'll talk about this in an upcoming post.
- ajays 13y ago95% != 100%. So there's a nontrivial chance that if I'm connected to someone in LinkedIn whose profile is "private", then if I forward a message from him (containing this LinkedIn flair) to some third party (who is not connected to him), then I could expose his profile details to the third party? That's a privacy lawsuit just waiting to happen.
- corin_ 13y agoEvery time I get an email from LinkedIn with updates on private profiles of people I am connected to I could forward that email to anyone, is that a privacy lawsuit waiting to happen too?