Linked In, anyone?

[jTr]

Just received an email from Linked In indicating:
"...and 206 other contacts were imported from your xxxxxxxxxxx.com email account."

How nice. They data mined my emails. I do not have 206 contacts in my address book - they pulled directly from my private business email history. And I certainly did NOT give them permission to do so, implied or otherwise. Yes, I know, they made some new rules for themselves, then claim implied consent since I have an account. Read their current terms of use - absolutely ridiculous - you go there, they own full rights to all your data, ideas, etc with full rights to exploit any way they wish. Does that mean they arguably have rights to any of my business concepts and intellectual property conveyed to those clients in those emails they felt free to invade?

Waiting for their reply to my scathing letter of request to completely delete all traces of my being there.

I only got into it as I was invited by a potential client a few years ago to Link to them. Seemed innocent enough and wanted to offer a positive response to my client's request, but now feel completely invaded.

Am I being hyper sensitive, or does anyone else think this is atrocious?

So here's my invitation to you - add ointment or salt to my wound...:D

Sorry for being off topic, but I really needed to vent....

jeff

[steve_g]

You must feel as violated as I did when I plugged in my iphone into my computer USB port to charge... Apple took liberties with my settings that I may never straighten out... and yes, I finally treated Linked in like a virus.


SG

[bleeth]

Linked in, IMHO, are thieves and spammers, frankly much like Facebook. I am still amazed when, for example, I look at a camera for sale on Amazon, then for the next several days half the ads I see on news pages, etc are for cameras. I thought many years ago that the advent of the debit card was going to lead to loss of privacy, but the internet has trumped all except possibly a complete totalitarian society.

[gene]

E bay keeps up with you look at and in the next visits to the site you will see all of these things they have picked for you to see that are just plain ADS! The bad thing is even though you purchased what you were looking at they keep on suggesting you look at things you already bought .:mad: