LinkedIn will face a lawsuit over its use of customers' emails

15 Aug 2014 • engadget.com

If you’ve given professional-networking site LinkedIn access to your email account, you may be aware that the site uses your contact list to recruit new members. What you probably weren’t aware of, though, is that LinkedIn can send your contacts invitation emails followed by reminder emails – at the risk of making you look like a needy user who can’t take a hint. This practice is at the crux of an upcoming lawsuit against the company, with a District Judge in San Jose, California ruling that the repeat emails could injure users’ reputations.

Thank you to everyone who filed this lawsuit. I hate the constant bombardment of these bothersome emails from LinkedIn.