Wow, always suspected this was going on. But, to read it like that in black and white it is really quite shocking.

Data harvesting has got completely out of control. If only we had an organisation with the power to stop it by making something like laws...

I have never had a linkedin. Some people probably thought I was being rude when I told them this after they asked to connect to me on linkedin. LinkedIn in my earliest memories of it was famous for spamming your contacts. That seemed like trojan horse behavior to me, and I avoided that site like the plague. I even blocked it at my DNS.

Now I read they are spamming jobs that don't exist. Imagine my complete lack of surprise.