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Update: temptation got the better of me and I closed my account.

Now if only deleting your account meant never getting any more emails from them... I still get ‘so and so wants to connect’ after I deleted mine.

Anyone have any idea how to stop this? (Besides an email filter?) is this practice even legal?

They should have an unsubscribe link, if you live in the EU you should be able to ask them to delete all your data under GDPR rules

Is there any EU law which prevents them from resuming the spam as soon as another one of your acquaintances gives LinkedIn access to his/her contacts? Because otherwise that's what's going to happen...

GDPR still applies. This is personal information about you, so you can make them delete it. The fact that they got the information from someone else is irrelevant.

(Imho. Not a lawyer.)

Sure, but deleting it doesn't do much good if they're going to get a new copy of the same information from someone else a week later.

LinkedIn has applied GDPR rules worldwide. You can do that from anywhere.

Am I the only one who never received spam from LinkedIn ever?

Nothing before I had an account, and when I signed up I turned off all the spam in the notification settings and don’t get any either.

Nope. I've never had any emails come through except the ones I've set to come through. Now, on the off chance I do go to their website, there's always a load of new notifications with that spam included in it.

Same thing happened to me. When i contacted them about it, they claimed the emails were spam and not from them (despite the emails clearly mentioning contacts I had connected with!).

After numerous emails back and forth they eventually added to their "Do Not Contact" list. No emails since!

I’m just about there too, but I need to decide: straight up leave and don’t look back, or spend a bit more time to poison the well (with a new dummy account, of course)? I’m leaning towards the former just to be able to maintain the moral high ground.

Probably I’m overthinking this..

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