The app is asking for a million permissions that are completely unnecessary. They are just as much of a data kraken as facbeook, google and apple, with the exception of people being fully transparent about professional achievements and qualifications. That’s a definite reason to never give them access to my phone.
It’s not though. Do you have the app? I do. On iOS you can literally see what it has already requested to have access to, and if you said yes or no.
The app has never requested access to my contacts, meaning it has zero access to my contacts. Location? Not even once. Search history? Never. Like this isn’t even hard to prove. I just took this screenshot an hour ago:
See? Linkedin has never requested access to my contacts, which is the very first thing listed in the screenshot on this thread about what information it may get access to. People seem to be overlooking the word “may”. It may have access to your contacts…if you try to do something specifically with your phone contacts and then it asks you if it can and you say yes. Outside of that? No access.
The only data that the app has access to is what I do on the app, which is exactly the same data that it has access to when I access linkedin via their website in a web browser.
The app is asking for a million permissions that are completely unnecessary. They are just as much of a data kraken as facbeook, google and apple, with the exception of people being fully transparent about professional achievements and qualifications. That’s a definite reason to never give them access to my phone.
It’s not though. Do you have the app? I do. On iOS you can literally see what it has already requested to have access to, and if you said yes or no.
The app has never requested access to my contacts, meaning it has zero access to my contacts. Location? Not even once. Search history? Never. Like this isn’t even hard to prove. I just took this screenshot an hour ago:
https://imgur.com/a/1Sl4dyq
See? Linkedin has never requested access to my contacts, which is the very first thing listed in the screenshot on this thread about what information it may get access to. People seem to be overlooking the word “may”. It may have access to your contacts…if you try to do something specifically with your phone contacts and then it asks you if it can and you say yes. Outside of that? No access.
The only data that the app has access to is what I do on the app, which is exactly the same data that it has access to when I access linkedin via their website in a web browser.