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<h1 itemprop="name">Do you know that your email address is shared by default with your network on LinkedIn?</h1>
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<p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> You should hide your email to your network on LinkedIn.</p>
<p>You can easily find your connections' email addresses. Go on their profiles and click on "See contact info".</p>
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<h2>How to hide your email?</h2>
<p>Your email is, by default, visible to your network. You can change this setting in "Me" > "Settings & Privacy" > "<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/privacy">Privacy</a>". Change "Who can see your email address" to "Only you".</p>
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<h2>Why does it matter?</h2>
<p>I believe that with a little of social engineering you can add anyone on LinkedIn, even if you don't know them. Any strangers can be one of your connections so it is important to protect your email address!</p>
<p>With your email address in the wild, here are some of the risks:</p>
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<li>You may recieve (more) spams</li>
<li>It may be used for social engineering</li>
<li>You may be the target of some ransomware</li>
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<h2>Some statistics from my network</h2>
<p>Since GDPR you can download your data which is a good thing. In LinkedIn, you can do it <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/member-data">here</a>. In the archive generated, you will find a <code>Connections.csv</code> file with all your connections included their email adsresses... Yep, so here is some statistics from my own network (about 600 connections):</p>
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<li><strong>71%</strong> share their personal email (gmail, yahoo, hotmail...)</li>
<li><strong>27%</strong> other (mainly pro but also personal email with custom domain name)</li>
<li><strong>2%</strong> don't share their email.</li>
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<p>Bonus: 50% of my contacts have a gmail address!</p>
<p>I know that some recruiters on LinkedIn have thousands of connections, I wonder if some of them extract email from LinkedIn that way.</p>
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