said by DigitalXeron:PS: When will social networking companies stop or be stopped in their continuing abuse of privacy and deceptive practices?
When consumers learn enough about how social media works and what they have to give up in exchange. No doubt recent NSA discloses are giving people some inkling about how pervasive intrusions to privacy are.
You will note in the link your provided that LinkedIn already posted an addendum "clarifying" how the system works due to questions that were raised. So I assume that there is some rumbling already.
LI is supposedly now focusing on mobile apps (due to how their users access LI) and those apps reportedly introduce yet other security issues.