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LinkedIn Faces Lawsuit Over Use of Members’ Contact Info

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A California federal court has allowed LinkedIn members to pursue a lawsuit against the company for using the contacts information in their external email accounts for marketing purposes. So reports Bloomberg.

The judge who allowed the suit to proceed held that, when LinkedIn emailed members’ contacts multiple times in an effort to recruit them, the professional networking site may have violated California law protecting against the use of a person’s name or likeness without their consent for commercial purposes.

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