[Boatanchors] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[J. Forster]

Malicious sites like LinkedIn and Facebook purposely bury privacy options.
They should be required to make maximal privacy the default option, and
warn people of any setting less than that.

However, that does not promote their ultimate objective of profiting from
data mining.

-John

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> You should always be aware of what you are subscribing to and what
> permissions there are and what you click on or don't click on as part of
> your profile. Failure to do this blames on one except the subscriber.
>
> Pete, wa2cwa
>
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:51:11 +1000 "Brian Clarke"
> <brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au> writes:
>> Not quite that simple.
>> With Facebook, you, as the subscriber, need to go into every little
>> nook and
>> cranny of the permissions to delete any harvesting - otherwise, the
>> default
>> is complete open slather.
>> 73 de Brian, VK2GCE.
>>
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