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Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone...
From: Gary Baribault <gary () baribault net>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 17:07:03 -0400
It's opt-in in that if you bother to read the 240,405 pager of the agreement when you install the 'upgrade' software, then you have in fact opted in .. so legally (IANAL) you have opted in. BS! Gary B Gary Baribault Courriel: gary () baribault net GPG Key: 0x685430d1 Fingerprint: 9E4D 1B7C CB9F 9239 11D9 71C3 6C35 C6B7 6854 30D1 On 10/26/2013 04:23 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Gary Baribault <gary () baribault net <mailto:gary () baribault net>> wrote: The other difference is that Google tells you up front, LinkedIn installed this out of the bleue without any real permissions. Of
course
if this where an opt in thing, nobody would be opting in! Well, I
never
did install their app and most certainly never will, and am
telling all
of my friends about this as well. 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.
Scott
Current thread:
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone..., (continued)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Phil Bedard (Oct 26)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Jay Ashworth (Oct 27)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Jimmy Hess (Oct 27)
- RE: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Leo Vegoda (Oct 28)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Laszlo Hanyecz (Oct 25)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Michael Thomas (Oct 26)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 25)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Gary Baribault (Oct 26)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Scott Howard (Oct 26)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Michael Thomas (Oct 26)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Gary Baribault (Oct 27)
- Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone... Jay Farrell (Oct 25)