So there's a nontrivial chance that if I'm connected to someone in LinkedIn whose profile is "private", then if I forward a message from him (containing this LinkedIn flair) to some third party (who is not connected to him), then I could expose his profile details to the third party? That's a privacy lawsuit just waiting to happen.
Every time I get an email from LinkedIn with updates on private profiles of people I am connected to I could forward that email to anyone, is that a privacy lawsuit waiting to happen too?