Slashdot Mirror
LinkedIn Apologizes For Trying To Connect Everyone In Real Life (vocativ.com)
LinkedIn has apologized for a vague new update that told some iPhone users its app would begin sharing their data with nearby users without further explanation. From a report: The update prompted outrage on Twitter after cybersecurity expert Rik Ferguson received a strange alert when he opened the resume app to read a new message: "LinkedIn would like to make data available to nearby Bluetooth devices even when you're not using the app." That gave Ferguson, vice president of research at the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, a handful of concerns, he told Vocativ. Among them: "the lack of specificity, which data, when, under what conditions, to which devices, why does it need to happen when I'm not using the app, what are the benefits to me, where is the feature announcement and explanation, why wasn't it listed in the app update details." Reached for comment, LinkedIn said it's a mistake -- that some iPhone users were accidentally subject to undeveloped test feature the company is still working on.
you found out about this horrible feature before we officially released it.
I could use this to beg for a job from thought-leaders who happen to be nearby. Then I could move out of my Mom's basement.
Does anyone still take LinkedIn seriously? It's just marketing guys thses days, right? If someone looking for work with my team forwarded their LinkedIn page as a serious part of their resume, I would write them off as morons.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
To LinkedIn has decided that they need to become Tinder now? SIlly me, I remember when it was about business.
LinkedIn is awesome. When I got an iPhone a few years ago and installed the LinkedIn app, I was able to merge all my Yahoo Mail contacts with LinkedIn profiles. I was able to connect to the 800+ recruiters I've talked to over the last 20+ years. But I still get annoyed that LinkedIn periodically wants to spam all my email addresses again.
Inquiring minds want to know then, just what it was then. Did it just enter the code fully formed when nobody was looking?
to not trust any social media website with your personal information (are you listening facebook zombies?)
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
The title of this article sounds like something out of The Onion. "Google apologizes for trying to index every webpage in the world". "Intel apologizes for having the hottest CPU's in the industry".
Vintage computer adverts: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads
This isn't the first time LinkedIn did something shady via their iPhone app. Frankly, I'm not sure why anyone would still trust them enough to install it.
#DeleteChrome
I like LinkedIn, especially because it is a great way to create ad-hoc industry forums for sharing news on developing niche technologies.
But its main use for me is allowing me to figure out which company the salespeople I know are working at this week. Before I email a salesperson who I talked with six months ago, I check their LinkedIn to see if they still work at that company.
LinkedIn is a creepy, kooky, cluster fuck, circus of confusion.
Why did the www evolve into this clumping together of humans pretending to be social on a website?
My current pet peeve with LinkedIn is the weekly requests for access to my email contact list. Would you employ someone to work with technology who gave out their email password just to share their contact list? I emailed them to complain that if I didn't compromise my security the first time they asked why do they keep on asking? They bounced my email because they couldn't do a reverse lookup on my email server. Apparently a SPF record is not good enough for them, I need to have enough money to be able to pay for service that will allow reverse lookup. A real double standard considering they want access to my contact list.
While I am complaining, I am really tempted to bounce any incoming emails with a noreply reply address. Is anyone doing that yet? If I am prepared to accept their email I think it is only reasonable they should be prepared to accept my reply.
I'll accept their apology when the company shuts down and the senior management is fitted with cement shoes and goes for a swim in the middle of the Atlantic.
I'm really tired of being mined for data by every website/app. It's like there isn't any other possible business model. There're some services (not everything) that I'd be happy to pay for if I could be sure they wouldn't harverst and sell data not necessary for its basic functioning. You know, like what software licensing used to be: You pay some money you get a product that does only what it's supposed to.