I am active on LinkedIn so I thought I w ... / 2014-07-23

I am active on LinkedIn so I thought I would have a look at the LinkedIn application for android phones.

I was a bit wary of the rights LinkedIn wanted, since it keeps asking me for my e-mail username and password so it can scan my mailbox for interesting contacts. So I checked the rights for the official LinkedIn application in the play store:

This app has access to:

• Identity
  • find accounts on the device
  • read your own contact card
  • add or remove accounts
• Contacts/Calendar
  • read your contacts
  • modify your contacts
  • read calendar events plus confidential information
• Location
  • precise location (GPS and network-based)
• Phone
  • write call log
  • read call log
• Photos/Media/Files
  • test access to protected storage
  • modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
• Device ID & call information
  • read phone status and identity
• Other
  • receive data from Internet
  • read sync statistics
  • create accounts and set passwords
  • toggle sync on and off
  • full network access
  • read sync settings
  • control vibration
  • send sticky broadcast
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • view network connections

So all kinds of access so it can view personal data on the phone. I am going to skip LinkedIn on the smartphone and I'll keep using it with webbrowsers.