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Linkedin is behaving perfectly reasonably, it makes sense that for privacy reasons you want to restrict access to the work history of connections. Imagine some
by ig1 14y ago
Linkedin is behaving perfectly reasonably, it makes sense that for privacy reasons you want to restrict access to the work history of connections.
Imagine someone you're connected to using linkedin on a recruiter's website giving them access their linkedin account. That recruiter now has full access to your work history, do you consider that acceptable ?
- bad_user 14y agoI would agree with you, but given that many LinkedIn profiles are public and discoverable when doing Google searches, with the work history included, I don't think this is an issue privacy, as those people wanted for their profile to be public. Anyway, a simple crawler would do the trick for public profiles.
- ig1 14y agoThe thread isn't talking about public profiles, rather profiles that your user account is privileged to access. (Linkedin don't let you access public profiles via the API; but that's a separate issue)