Your iPhone calendar isn’t private—at least if you use the LinkedIn app

I actually removed LinkedIn app from my Android phone. I don't understand why a glorified web page viewer needs to be able to manage accounts on my phone?

In light of this, sharing my calendar details (and probably more) does not surprise me. Now it's gone from my iPhone as well.

Click on Permissions tab here to see a full list of permissions this app asks for on Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linkedin.a...

Last paragraph:

As for what the app will do moving forward: "We will no longer send data from the meeting notes section of your calendar event. There will be a new 'learn more' link to provide more information about how your calendar data is being used." LinkedIn says these updates are already live on the Android app and will be coming to the iOS app shortly.

I've already removed the LinkedIn app from my phone after this morning's revelations and frankly should've done it a while ago due to the constant notifications count distraction.

As a tech professional there is no shortage of headhunter communique - and a particularly low quality/quantity ratio from LinkedIn - that simply doesn't need to take focus from anything else at my phone's reach.

The Evernote iPhone app also accesses the calendar - if you create a note from the app it puts the current active calendar event title in the note automatically although you as users can delete it again. In fact it's a cool feature

Looks like they've just pushed an update with "calendar improvements"...

Just to be clear, this only applies to an opt-in feature of the app.

I need a bot to post this.

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   you're the product being sold. -- blue_beetle