Re:LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who h...
by mcv on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:48AM
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I 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.
Re:LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who h...
by T-hawk on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:31AM
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Once 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.
Re:LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who h...
by mrtksn on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:17AM
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By mobile you mean Android. In IOS, apps needs to explicitly ask the user to access the contacts after installing the app.
Re:LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who h...
by mpclark on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:21AM
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Ha, 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...
Re:LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who h...
by abruzzi on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:18PM
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Well, 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-bo...
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.