It's opt-in in that if you bother to read the 240,405 pager of the agreement when you install the 'upgrade' software, then you have in fact opted in .. so legally (IANAL) you have opted in. BS!
Gary B Gary Baribault Courriel: [email protected] GPG Key: 0x685430d1 Fingerprint: 9E4D 1B7C CB9F 9239 11D9 71C3 6C35 C6B7 6854 30D1 On 10/26/2013 04:23 PM, Scott Howard wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Gary Baribault <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > The other difference is that Google tells you up front, LinkedIn > installed this out of the bleue without any real permissions. Of course > if this where an opt in thing, nobody would be opting in! Well, I never > did install their app and most certainly never will, and am telling all > of my friends about this as well. > > > Have you actually confirmed it's NOT opt-in? The screenshots on the Linked-in engineering blog referenced earlier certainly make it look like it is. > > http://engineering.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/intro_installer_0.png > > Of course, you could argue there's a difference between opting-in for "enhancing your email with Intro" and opting-in for "Please MITM all of my email and dynamic modify it", but that's really just semantics - it definitely appears to be opt-in. > > Scott >
