LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information with ads

Re:LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information ... by pornel on Thursday August 11, 2011 @07:15AM (#2872308)

There would be no outrage if they simply put "we'll share all your stuff any way we want" on page 74 of EULA (if they haven't already).

At least URL for this setting is nice:

There are other settings you might want to opt out of:

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Re:LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information ... by nodata on Thursday August 11, 2011 @09:01AM (#2872584)

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Re:LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information ... by DrJ on Thursday August 11, 2011 @02:56PM (#2874240)

Finally I got around to figuring out where they opted me in to receive these weekly digests that started showing up last month.

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Re:LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information ... by mbrzuzy on Thursday August 11, 2011 @10:01AM (#2872843)

Thanks for these links. I was only aware of the social advertising one because of twitter last night.

Opted out of the other two as well.

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