"In order to provide our calendar service to those who choose to use it, we need to send information about your calendar events to our servers so we can match people with LinkedIn profiles. That information is sent securely over SSL and we never share or store your calendar information," the company wrote. "In an effort to make that algorithm for matching people with profiles increasingly smarter we pull the complete calendar event, including email addresses of people you are meeting with, meeting subject, location and meeting notes."

If these folks are already on my calendar, it means I already have some sort of relationship with them. Why on science's green earth do I need them to help me more accurately match them? They got caught with their hands in the cookie jar and cannot fess up to being inconsiderate of their users' privacy. I hope a huge lawsuit comes from this and there is a big judgment against LinkedIn. These companies need to be held accountable for their total disregard of end user privacy.