Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone...

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

Scott Howard wrote:

> Have you actually confirmed it's NOT opt-in?  The screenshots on the
> Linked-in engineering blog referenced earlier certainly make it look like
> it is.
>
> http://engineering.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/intro_installer_0.png
>
> Of course, you could argue there's a difference between opting-in for
> "enhancing your email with Intro" and opting-in for "Please MITM all of my
> email and dynamic modify it", but that's really just semantics - it
> definitely appears to be opt-in.

There's consent and then  there's informed consent. Unless they explicitly
disclaim that "WE CAN AND DO READ EVERY PIECE OF MAIL YOU SEND AND RECEIVE
AND USE IT FOR WHATEVER WE WANT" then it isn't informed consent. My guess is
that the confirmation dialogs are more along the lines of "DO YOU LIKE CUTE
KITTENS?"

Mike