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adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
My lesson in this was way back when LinkedIn came out with an app. I installed it and the first thing it did was ask me for all my contacts and start pinging tracking servers. I uninstalled it immediately and avoided apps for web services after that.
Later that year, I found that if I HAD allowed that app to do what it wanted, it would have grabbed all that data and sent it to the company, who was selling it off to third parties. They got in a big class action lawsuit for it.
Those were the days. Now it’s just expected behavior.
scytale@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Reminds me of the time I was at a security conference. Obviously there was a lot of networking going on and a group of people I was talking to decided to connect on linkedin. They were sharing the qr code thing from the app and I said I didn’t have it. At first they thought I wasn’t on linkedin (and were baffled at that), and I had to clarify I HAVE an account but I don’t have the app on my phone. They were confused and I had to explain how much info the app wants to grab. And this was at an application security conference.