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Comment by StrauXX

5 days ago

Do you have a reference with more information on that?

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dijit  5 days ago

On HN itself: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-20/linkedin-...

genghisjahn  5 days ago

They used a legit google oauth but with broad rights. They did pull the contact and repeatedly spam them as personal emails. There were lawsuits.

lossyalgo  4 days ago

It's all documented on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn#Criticism_and_controv...

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