LinkedIn Will Pay For Spamming Your Email Contacts

If you just got a long email about LinkedIn and a class-action legal settlement, yes, it’s real. And yes, you could be eligible to get some of that $13 million that the social network is paying to settle the lawsuit. In 2013, a class-action lawsuit accused LinkedIn of accessing users’ email accounts without their permission and unwittingly using their names…

LinkedIn User Privacy Class Action Settlement, up to $50

Individuals who paid for a premium LinkedIn subscription at any time between March 15, 2006 and June 7, 2012, can receive up to $50 back. The class action lawsuit alleges that LinkedIn did not adequately safeguard the passwords and personal information of users who subscribed to its premium services. There’s a settlement pool of $1,250,000. Read…