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The outrage here I think is that LinkedIn didn't explicitly state that risk. We know google has our email and can do things with it.

To the average user, LinkedIn made no attempt what so ever to explain that by doing this, you were putting approximately the same level of trust in them as you do in Google/some other mail provider. This is particularly troubling if most people, as I do, don't have an existing trust relationship with LinkedIn simply because everything we have on their is public.