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I think you might be forgetting that by e-mailing said person, you become part of their contacts too. Should that person decide to import or sync their contacts
by shortsleeves 13y ago
I think you might be forgetting that by e-mailing said person, you become part of their contacts too. Should that person decide to import or sync their contacts in linkedin, a relationship between you and that person is established on their server. ie: it's an _undirected_ edge between you and your contact, which they seem to use to display stuff back to you.
- tedunangst 13y agono, no, no. Reddit's Razor: if a corporation could be doing something evil, they are doing that something.
- brymaster 13y agoThese "social" big data companies have a history of doing evil (or sometimes, stepping right up to that line) and $LKND certainly isn't in business to be altruistic. Their iphone app used to slurp up your data without authorization: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/your-iphone-calendar-isnt-privateat-least-if-you-use-the-linkedin-app/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/your-iphone-calendar-is... Furthermore: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680680 LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information with ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2872030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2872030 LinkedIn is Evil https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220138
- tedunangst 13y agoI thank you for providing examples that prove my point. :) That's mostly speculation along the lines of "evil could have been done, therefore evil must have been done".