Agreed - I think they stopped doing this, but I am still tempted to make a GDPR complaint on the basis I have never consented to receiving contact from them.
Looking back at my email archives, I was still getting "X's invite is awaiting your response" emails in October 2018, after GDPR began.
Perhaps I am taking an overly strict view here, but given my email address is my personal data, no amount of consent (or indeed waivers/warrants from users that they have my consent, which LinkedIn has no genuine reason to believe true) can grant them permission to store and process my personal data.
It seems nonetheless unavoidable for LinkedIn to have carried out the process of linking my email to the person that sent the (unsolicited) request. This kind of behaviour is really rather scummy. I hope that invite spam could be a separate case on the basis of a GDPR violation, rather than the "accidentally going into people's email and getting their contacts" (as incredulous as it is to even write this!)
Looking back at my email archives, I was still getting "X's invite is awaiting your response" emails in October 2018, after GDPR began.
Perhaps I am taking an overly strict view here, but given my email address is my personal data, no amount of consent (or indeed waivers/warrants from users that they have my consent, which LinkedIn has no genuine reason to believe true) can grant them permission to store and process my personal data.
It seems nonetheless unavoidable for LinkedIn to have carried out the process of linking my email to the person that sent the (unsolicited) request. This kind of behaviour is really rather scummy. I hope that invite spam could be a separate case on the basis of a GDPR violation, rather than the "accidentally going into people's email and getting their contacts" (as incredulous as it is to even write this!)