Re: "LinkedIn to face customer lawsuit over email addresses" -- itnews.com.au

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

Does anyone know if its a result of that app they created and the
security community decried?

LinkedIn’s New Mobile App Called ‘a Dream for Attackers’,
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/linkedins-new-mobile-app-called-a-dream-for-attackers/

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Nick FitzGerald
<nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
>    
> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/388209,linkedin-to-face-customer-lawsuit-over-email-addresses.aspx?eid=3&edate=20140616&utm_source=20140616_PM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter
>
>    Judge rules email practices may be damaging.
>
>    A US federal judge has ruled LinkedIn must face a lawsuit by
>    customers who claimed it violated their privacy by accessing their
>    external email accounts, downloading their contacts' email
>    addresses and soliciting business from those contacts.
>
> Rich K will be _gutted_...
>
> 8-)

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