LinkedIn Corp.'s use of members’ third-party e-mail account data to repeatedly send invitations to join the professional social networking site violates federal and California law, is almost impossible to stop, and harms users’ business reputations, according to a putative class action filed Sept. 17 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Perkins v. LinkedIn Corp., N.D. Cal., No. 5:13-cv-04303).
According to the complaint, LinkedIn “hack[s]” into the external e-mail accounts that a user provides at registration, such as with Yahoo! Mail or Google Gmail, and downloads every e-mail address associated with that account.
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