OpenGlobal contacted LinkedIn about this and they have decided that they are exempt from the Data Protection Act, and also exempt from their own terms and conditions and it is the users who must honour LinkedIn's obligations, not them: However, LinkedIn have clearly breached this agreement because it is very easy for your email address to get shared with other users whom you have not agreed to contact with. "Your contact information will only be shared with another User if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact with each other." When you gave your email address to LinkedIn to open your account, you agreed to their Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions, which state that: Sophos, the IT security experts, have also noticed this problem. This also means that your contacts can inadvertently distribute your email address to their contacts, whom you may or may not know, and more importantly, whom you may or may not trust.
However, this feature on LinkedIn means that you can send a message to Person A, Person B and Person C, and if you send the message with the tick box still ticked, they will be able to see each other's email addresses in the To: or CC: fields of the email that they receive.even if they do not know each other.even if they are mortal enemies of each other. What happens is that the message is sent and any recipients who have configured their account to receive email notifications will INDIVIDUALLY receive an email from This email address is being protected from spambots. If you send a message to your contacts using Facebook or any other online messaging system, you don't get this option. When you send a message to your LinkedIn contacts using their messaging system, you get the option marked below ticked by default: The first problem is with their messaging system.
I have discovered two separate privacy breaches at LinkedIn and have been discussing this with them for over 5 months now to try to get it fixed. Privacy Warning: LinkedIn is giving your email address to people you do not knowĭid you know that LinkedIn is giving away your personal information to people you do not know? And, there's no privacy setting to prevent this and the only way you can stop it is to completely remove your LinkedIn account.
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