tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post2141695542120783721..comments2023-10-18T05:25:41.091-07:00Comments on Privacy Log: LinkedIn privacy case study: Stealing private data from your address bookWilliam Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-76566109890964400992013-09-24T23:19:53.427-07:002013-09-24T23:19:53.427-07:00I received an email from LinkedIn, which I had nev...I received an email from LinkedIn, which I had never heard of or cared to remember if I had heard the name before. It was an invitation from an individual with whom I had important on-going legal business. I clicked on a link that opened a LinkedIn web page where I was asked to set-up an account. I cautiously began to enter login info and some personal profile info but decided not to continue as I really didn't want to supply some of the info that was being asked of me, so I backspaced and deleted all field entries without submitting anything and then closed the web page. Minutes later I received an email from LinkedIn welcoming me as a member and asking me to login and complete the profile questions. This time the page had names and photos of people I have listed in my outlook contacts folders as LinkedIn members. I feel as if I have been raped and can sympathize with William Entriken and his plight. Where are the authorities who are supposed to protect us from predators like LinkedIn? or are there any? I unsubscribed by not logging in using the password that I had typed and deleted with out submitting, but by getting a temporary password by clicking on "I forgot my password", logging in with it, and finding the link to delete the account that I never submitted information for I deleted the account. It was a nightmare and my world has changed as does some ones life who has been forcibly raped. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-38288954766267938622013-08-21T10:07:10.711-07:002013-08-21T10:07:10.711-07:00It doesn't matter WHAT you give them permissio...It doesn't matter WHAT you give them permission to do. I've been a LIn member for many years. Their entire business model is built up them intalling malware on your computer that steals the contents of your address book repeatedly even if you NEVER give them permission to access ANY of you addressess or contact info. They simply steal it, then slyly ask if you happen to know any of the people they present to you. Of course you know them. They stole them illegally and without permission. THAT IS THEIR BUSINESS PLAN. It's built upon the. incompetence and corruption of Microsoft. The only fix is to keep ALL of you contacts saved in a separate XL file. Never gonna happen so get used to pervasive criminality from LIn. Brave New World for many years now. I've never given them permission to access anything and they've simply stolen it dozens of times over the years. It's easy to catch them: add a new conact that totally not related to the others, and soon they will ask if you know them. Duh!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-73949008042853605592013-06-27T18:20:06.826-07:002013-06-27T18:20:06.826-07:00Why are my email contacts being stolen by linked i...Why are my email contacts being stolen by linked in? And why no one is doing anything about it. I never give anyone permission to do such a thing. This is bs. I need some answers and linked in is ignoring everyone that have a problem. I will try to post this thing in as many places in web so that people are aware of this scamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-31174546660638159552013-06-01T04:11:55.643-07:002013-06-01T04:11:55.643-07:00yes I agree, I have found linkedin is suggesting I...yes I agree, I have found linkedin is suggesting I connect with people who I work with. The thing is, I have not recorded any information about my currect workplace on my profile (my old workplace details are still listed) and I have not connected to any of the people at my currect workplace. Also I use a different email address at work to the one I use with linkedin...so my suspicion is linkedin is scanning my outlook for addresses of the people I have communicated with via email because these are the only ones it suggests I connect to. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-13161558964428261802013-03-08T12:50:30.790-08:002013-03-08T12:50:30.790-08:00Lofa, Anonymous, Jerry.....even though horse is al...Lofa, Anonymous, Jerry.....even though horse is already out of the barn, I found a way to take all my personal webmail contacts out of Linkedin system.....I'm hoping permanently but not betting on it. All my webmail contacts were in Linkedin's "Imported Contacts", although I did not do the importing. That was Linkedin's doing....totally. If it happens again I think Linkedin should be held legally accountable, as my personal webmail contact list is not on public domain and can not be publicly shared by anyone, let alone stolen via cookies in the first place.<br /> <br />See below process for removing Imported Contact List...<br /><br />Removing Imported Contacts<br /><br />Click Contacts at the top of your home page.<br />Click the Imported Contacts tab.<br />Make sure the Select All box is unchecked by clicking on it.<br />Click the box in front of the contact you wish to remove.<br />At the bottom of the page, click Delete selected contacts.<br />Click Delete to confirm. <br /><br />Good Luck !!<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-74140470383778072742013-03-07T17:15:41.850-08:002013-03-07T17:15:41.850-08:00Lofa, Anonymous, Jerry.....same thing happened hap...Lofa, Anonymous, Jerry.....same thing happened happened to me today. I hadn't experienced this before today on Linkedin, and then today half of my personal e-mail contact list showed up on my "People You May Know"....going all the way back to 2008. It included previous employers/supervisors, company HR personnel where I have applied for positions, recruiters, relatives, .....you name it and they were on there. I assume it worked in reverse and my Linkedin profile went out to all of those people as well. Unfortunately, for both personal & professional reasons, I did not want my Linkedin profile automatically broadcast to several people on my e-mail contact list. This is not just cookies following me around on the internet.....this is taking my personal email account contact list for their personal use and is outright Theft, and no other explanation can be made for it. I also contacted Linkedin today to officially have them delete my contact list from their system.....we'll see what happens.<br /><br />This whole "cookie theft" thing has gone too far.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-44120090251833877442013-02-06T06:34:37.201-08:002013-02-06T06:34:37.201-08:00They just love to cut the "connectors" o...They just love to cut the "connectors" out of the picture like you... by taking all your private information and making it publicWilliam Entrikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-66569216837517631772013-02-05T14:32:22.022-08:002013-02-05T14:32:22.022-08:00Yea, I had a situation occur the other day where a...Yea, I had a situation occur the other day where a contact used my email address on my new b-card to invite me to connect. Well, I've been in Asia for 3+ years and built a huge rolodex of contacts there. Now all of a sudden, I'm getting contact requests from people in Asia and once that happens east meets west. Not what I want!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-21351673468253135512013-01-31T06:37:51.577-08:002013-01-31T06:37:51.577-08:00Anonymous, this is very likely because those peopl...Anonymous, this is very likely because those people had given their email password and your name is in their email account. When people are freely giving away their own and their contacts' personal information, there is little we can do.William Entrikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-24072404201077242562013-01-30T23:52:18.466-08:002013-01-30T23:52:18.466-08:00I just established a LinkedIn account two days ago...I just established a LinkedIn account two days ago, absolutely refused to give them access to my personal email accounts. Now, two days later, on their page "People You Might Know", I see people who are listed as either shared connections, 2nd & 3rd connections, etc. Ok, I can understand that. They are looking for connections within their own database. BUT, I also see many people with no shared connections or indirect connections that could only have come from my personal email address book: my friends, my sister-in-law, my wife's friends, an engineer from another company I interacted with back in 2006, parents from my son's elementary school, and more. I'm outraged! What's the best way to register the most effective complaint about this? FYI. My LinkedIn password is different than my personal email password and there are no imported contacts in LinkedIn right now (I checked). 2nd FYI: My profile only has my current position and company, nothing else. I have also specified most of the datasharing options to be minimal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-44711046983832543082012-12-09T18:21:35.734-08:002012-12-09T18:21:35.734-08:00Jerry, do you have a link on that please? Also, do...Jerry, do you have a link on that please? Also, do you have some details on this Yahoo connection? Have you used Yahoo to find friends on LinkedIn or is it the same password as LinkedIn or something? Is what you saw reproducible?William Entrikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-67582768331807923682012-12-09T13:53:34.318-08:002012-12-09T13:53:34.318-08:00This has happened to me, and it makes me madder th...This has happened to me, and it makes me madder than hell. LinkedIn knows all the information in my Yahoo!mail address book. I have not ever given them my password or permission to access it. Either they have illegal compliance by Yahoo!, or they are using a browser exploit to simply access Yahoo!mail through the same browser I'm concurrently logged-on to LinkeIn with. This is criminal, and I'm looking forward to the EFF class-action suit.Jerry Berryhttp://www.fark.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-69246458298025820342012-07-03T15:48:13.112-07:002012-07-03T15:48:13.112-07:00I think this is based on "these people" ...I think this is based on "these people" viewing your profile or you visiting their profile on LI. Not from going into your email.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-86645189516011221712012-01-05T06:22:28.367-08:002012-01-05T06:22:28.367-08:00Same thing just happened to me Lofa and I also dem...Same thing just happened to me Lofa and I also demanded an explanation from LinkedIn. I never gave them permission to touch my private email.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-62901145274781673612011-11-15T09:12:13.476-08:002011-11-15T09:12:13.476-08:00Lofa, are you receiving emails to recommend people...Lofa, are you receiving emails to recommend people that you do NOT know? If so, this could mean that LinkedIn is guessing based on your contacts. I.E. you have 9 connections that are each connections with Mike, then you get an email: Please consider adding Mike.William Entrikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229267235341482029.post-49531798869675947972011-11-15T09:09:20.350-08:002011-11-15T09:09:20.350-08:00I realize the above post is three years old, so I ...I realize the above post is three years old, so I don't know what has transpired in that time, or if LinkedIn has addressed the William's issues. However, I do know this much:<br /><br />In the past two days LinkedIn has e-mailed me "How about these people?" suggestions that could only have come from them digging into the deepest levels of my e-mail system and address book! Some of the names being suggested are people I've had no dealings with in well over a decade. It's extremely unlikely these names just "popped up." LinkedIn had to dig them out of very old archived e-mails. I have NEVER given them permission to do that, or to import any of my contacts! <br /><br />There is nothing in the LinkedIn Privacy Policy that discloses their propensity to go fishing through my computer files. I have filed a complaint, and if I don't get an response I consider satisfactory, I'll be out of there faster than you can say LinkedIn sucks.Lofanoreply@blogger.com