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Judge: Lawsuit over LinkedIn's repeated invitation emails can proceed |
June 13, 2014
LinkedIn will have to face a lawsuit that alleges it damaged the image of users by repeatedly sending emails to their contacts inviting them to join the social network.The lawsuit was filed in September 2013 and LinkedIn had attempted to get it dismissed, but in a ruling on Thursday Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said the case would continue, albeit in a narrowed form.At the center of the case is a function on the LinkedIn website that allows users to invite people to connect with them. Users are able to give LinkedIn access to their address books from email services like Gmail and Yahoo Mail and LinkedIn will find existing members and offer to send an email invitation to those people who aren’t signed up to the site.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2363660/judge-lawsuit-over-linkedins-repeated-invitation-emails-can-proceed.html#tk.rss_all
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