LinkedIn Agrees To Block Stalkers

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 30, 2013 @03:06AM from the stop-following-me dept.

sholto writes "When Buzzfeed wrote about LinkedIn's stalker problem in June, LinkedIn claimed it had enough privacy tools "to effectively minimize unwanted connections". But a petition by a 24-year-old Ohio woman sexually assaulted by her boss and harassed through the network appears to have won the day for privacy advocates. LinkedIn said it was adding a blocking feature to protect members against stalkers. 'I can confirm that we’re in the process of building (a block feature),' responded Paul Rockwell, head of trust and safety at LinkedIn to a post in LinkedIn’s help forum called 'Stalking on LinkedIn'. 'Users on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other sites can easily block other users. LinkedIn appears to be an outlier among other top social media sites,' said petitioner Anna R."

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Caution: website makes your info public by sl4shd0rk · 2013-09-30 03:25 · Score: 1, Insightful

Plugging your info into a public website makes that info public.

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Why not just endorse him by stickrnan · 2013-09-30 03:40 · Score: 5, Insightful

...for harassment?
Honestly, since this is a "professional" network, maybe there should be a way to note someone's lack of professionalism?
Re:They are going to block the NSA? by game+kid · 2013-09-30 03:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

Hell, I'd actually be impressed if LinkedIn blocked LinkedIn. Spammy bastards.

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Re:Social Network? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-30 04:02 · Score: 0, Insightful

Well, if you have a Google+ and/or Facebook account, you're already an imbecile.
Different Profile by EMG+at+MU · 2013-09-30 05:17 · Score: 3, Insightful

Why wouldn't he just create another profile? Maybe one that looks like some generic recruiter at some generic recruiting company. I get notifications about people like that all the time. How can you differentiate between a stalker and the normal creepers/hr agents on linked in?