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I am neither a lawyer nor a computer expert, but I daresay LinkedIn does the same thing with Hotmail accounts, and even manages to work your personal Google searches into its invitation algorithms somehow. For many users this is thousands of addresses. Instead, LinkedIn sweeps the external email account for every email address a user has been emailed by, CCed, or emailed. LinkedIn does not prompt members for a password. If an email account is open, LinkedIn accesses the account by using the open email session. “LinkedIn attempts to access a user's Gmail account if the user has Gmail open in another browser window or has not logged out of Gmail.

Here's an example, lifted from a court brief, explaining how this supposedly works: For several months now, LinkedIn has faced various class-action lawsuits alleging, among other things, that it's been siphoning users' email contacts without their permission.