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I'm the same -- I never allow websites to riffle through my contacts, and would certainly never give up access to my email account to do it. However, mobile ap
by mpclark 13y ago
I'm the same -- I never allow websites to riffle through my contacts, and would certainly never give up access to my email account to do it.
However, mobile apps have a much easier time of it. Looking at the contacts stored on one's phone is just one of the many permissions they request, and users are conditioned to just click past that screen anyway.
- mrtksn 13y agoBy mobile you mean Android. In IOS, apps needs to explicitly ask the user to access the contacts after installing the app.
- mpclark 13y agoHa, yes, yes I mean Android. I'd heard there was another mobile OS out there, but haven't ever used it. So I wonder if there's a measurable difference in the Linkedin graphs of iOS and Android users as a result of this? I guess only Linkedin knows...
- abruzzi 13y agoWell, technically iOS only implemented the controls in the last year or two after the hubub with Path harvesting contacts: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/8/2785217/path-ios-address-book-upload-ceo-apology http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/8/2785217/path-ios-address-bo...
- blueskin_ 13y agohttp://hub.cm/blog/cm-feature-highlight-privacy-guard http://hub.cm/blog/cm-feature-highlight-privacy-guard
- mcv 13y agoI never would either. Problem is, it's possible I may have accidentally done it in the past, possibly when I was tired and thought it was about something else. Did I? Can I undo it? No idea. Linkedin is quiet about it, and it looks like it can't be undone.
- T-hawk 13y agoOnce information has been transmitted away from your device, it can never be undone. At best you might stop it from sharing future deltas, but once somebody has your data they will always have it as far as you can ever know.