LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals to connect and communicate. The site has been very popular among professionals as it was relatively secure and reliable.
However, a Google chrome website browser’s ad-on tool known as Sell Hack can expose the email address linked with the profiles of LinkedIn Users. This Google extension has created a legal controversy between LinkedIn and Sell Hack. Sell Hack is available as a free extension to the Chrome browser that, once installed, will pop up a “hack in” button on LinkedIn profiles. Users can then find the email address associated with the account even if they are not connected. LinkedIn has told it is taking legal action against the Sell Hack.
However Sell Hack denies that it had any intention to expose the privacy of LinkedIn users. It is just incident which we had no intention of. Says Sell Hack. Meanwhile, LinkedIn has advices users to uninstall the ad-on,”LinkedIn members who downloaded Sell Hack should uninstall it immediately and contact Sell Hack requesting that their data be deleted.” “We are doing everything we can to shut Sell Hack down. On 31 March LinkedIn’s legal team delivered Sell Hack a cease-and-desist letter as a result of several violations,” a spokesman told the BBC.
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