| How is linkedin aware of my gmail contacts? | xlns | 9/13/10 7:01 AM | Hello! A while ago, I've received an e-mail from LinkedIn (http://linkedinatem.linkedin.com) suggesting some new contacts to me. I do have a linkedin account, but I haven't used it in 1-2 years - TTYTT I opened the damn thing just to contact one man. Never |
| Re: How is linkedin aware of my gmail contacts? | sas22 | 11/12/10 5:53 AM | I am having the same issue and would like to know how to keep Linkedin from seeing my Google contacts. I just now went ahead and changed my password in Gmail. |
| Re: How is linkedin aware of my gmail contacts? | jkelly7 | 12/21/10 12:01 PM | Same thing here. Linkedin says that their proprietary search method guesses who would be a possible contact, but I have no contacts/connections on Linkedin at all and the only place I have the contact info for the people it is suggesting is in my gm |
| Re: How is linkedin aware of my gmail contacts? | mattr32 | 1/6/11 7:33 AM | me too. Same thing. Never gave explicit permissions to import contacts from anywhere, yet there are people I have the most tenuous of connections with, eg, one-two emails, being suggested to me as contacts. Do we have any legal grounds here? Again |
| Re: How is linkedin aware of my gmail contacts? | Ciocco | 1/19/11 10:04 PM | Same issue. I was tipped off because a guy showed up with whom I'd had no interaction except for a couple emails recently. I think that the people who are showing up are people who DID give permission to LinkedIn to use their email contacts. So in ot |
| Re: How is linkedin aware of my gmail contacts? | maverick67 | 2/28/11 4:56 AM | THE ISSUE DESCRIBED HERE IS UNPRECEDENTED. LinkedIn knows probably all of my GMail contacts, aprox. 100 of them. This is one of the scariest thing that I have encountered on the internet ever. I logged into LinkedIn and voala all my GMail contacts |