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LinkedIn Has to Pay for Sending All Those Annoying Emails

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Caleb Newquist

LinkedIn's Add Connections service sent a bunch of unwanted emails without people's consent and now they have to pay $13 million to settle a lawsuit.

I'm glad someone finally convinced them that "Spam" isn't a valuable endorsement.

[Mashable via Gizmodo]

Posted in Career CenterTagged LinkedIn, Settlements, spam

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