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