CEO sues LinkedIn over bogus profile, December 28, 2012 12:14 am, By
Rich Lord / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

"If you don't stake out your social media territory, someone else will.

That's the new reality reflected in a lawsuit filed Thursday in
Pittsburgh's federal court by a foundation head against the networking
firm LinkedIn Corp.

Rick D. Senft, president and CEO of the Passavant Memorial Home
Foundation, wants to know who put his name, personal cell phone and
personal email on the popular site -- and so far, LinkedIn won't tell
him.

"This represents a big deal and a big cultural challenge that has hardly
been worked out in the legal realm, in the moral realm, in the political
realm -- you name it," said Lee Rainie, director of Pew Internet and
American Life Project. "This is a case that represents a whole lot of
issues that we're just beginning to talk about."

Among them: Does anyone with even a modest public profile really have
the option not to participate in social media?"



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