LinkedIn getting aggressive…feeling the heat?

I posted a few days ago about Yelp getting aggressive/deceptive with the tactic of getting users’ email login and passwords to scrape contacts. Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman was kind enough to respond to my post and clarify that Yelp keeps scraped info private and offers the feature only for user benefit. LinkedIn has recently started intensifying similar efforts. Nearly every time I add someone as a contact I’m prompted with a screen asking for my email account info so they can get in there and take my contact information. I’m sure LinkedIn would state that they too are only using this information for legitimate purposes, but it’s still something I’m not about to give to anyone. LinkedIn has got to be feeling the heat with all the recent Facebook hype.