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LinkedIn’s iOS app is scraping your private (and personal) meeting notes (Update)
Last April, LinkedIn finally got around to rolling out an iPad app. Truthfully, the iPad app leaves a lot to be desired. It’s not nearly as good as LinkedIn’s iPhone app. However, both apps share a new feature that lets them sync their iOS calendars, thus allowing them to view upcoming events inside the LinkedIn app itself. The only problem appears to be, as the New York Times reports, that LinkedIn is collecting a user’s meeting notes and sending them back to LinkedIn’s servers.
Uh, oh.
Why this is a big deal — and why every LinkedIn user should be furious about this — is because it’s a major breach of privacy, it’s against Apple’s privacy guidelines, and it is no where stated in the app that enabling calendar sync will send any event notes back to LinkedIn servers.
As the New York Times points out, many people include confidential notes in a calendar event. For instance, a CEO might have a calendar event for a meeting in which, in addition to the time and place, he also might have written down the corporate call-in number along with its passcode and the company’s confidential financial highlights in the notes. Also, LinkedIn’s calendar sync doesn’t just upload your business calendars to LinkedIn’s serves, it uploads your personal ones as well. So if you have a calendar event for a private medical appointment and make a note on the event saying, “Ask doctor about the lump I found,” that’s on LinkedIn’s servers, too.
LinkedIn spokesperson Julie Inouye, told the New York Times the company’s “calendar sync feature is a clear ‘opt-in’ experience…We use information from the meeting data to match LinkedIn profile information about who you’re meeting with so you have more information about that person.” She also noted that user’s iOS calendars only sync when the LinkedIn app is open and that users could opt out of the calendar feature at any point.
There are two problems with this answer: One, it doesn’t explain why users weren’t notified their private notes were being uploaded to LinkedIn’s servers, and two, it doesn’t address whether a user’s calendars and notes are deleted from the servers when a user who has opted in opts out, or if the already-uploaded events and their notes remain on LinkedIn’s servers forever.
Until LinkedIn rectifies this (or Apple steps up to the plate and pulls the app until it’s rectified) there’s little a user can do if they’ve already opted in to LinkedIn’s calender sync. However, those who have opted in can still opt out, and thus at least prevent future entries from being uploaded to LinkedIn’s servers, by doing the following:
On the iPhone
- Open the LinkedIn iOS app on your iPhone.
- Select your profile (the “You” badge).
- Tap the cog wheel icon in the top-right corner.
- Tap “Add Calendar.”
- On the next screen, switch “Add Your Calendar” to OFF.
On the iPad
- Open the LinkedIn iOS app on your iPhone.
- Tap the cog wheel icon in the top-left corner.
- Switch “Show Calendar” to OFF.
Update: LinkedIn has issued a statement regarding the mobile calendar feature, saying:
“We Don’t:
- We do not store any calendar information on our servers.
- We do not share or use your calendar data for purposes other than matching it with relevant LinkedIn profiles.
- We do not under any circumstances access your calendar data unless you have explicitly opted in to sync your calendar
We Will Improve:
- We will no longer send data from the meeting notes section of your calendar event.
- There will be a new ‘learn more’ link to provide more information about how your calendar data is being used.”
LinkedIn’s iOS app is scraping your private (and personal) meeting notes (Update) originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:If you’re going to check out the Venus transit try to capture it with your iPhone
On Tuesday, Venus will pass in front of the sun for the last time until 2117.
Southern Stars Software, makers of SkySafari for iOS wants people to use their iPhone or iPad cameras to capture the transit and have a chance to win an iPad, iPod touch, or a Samsung Galaxy tablet (which most of our readers would probably pass on).
To enter, here’s the catch, you must own a copy of one of the editions of SkySafari, which is on sale for this event starting at US $ 0.99. Rules for the contest can be found on the Southern Stars website.
Contest aside, this is a good excuse to get SkySafari if you don’t have it already. It’s a great way to get out under the summer night skies and see what is up there. At transit time, which is of course a daytime event, you’ll be able to see a simulation of what’s happening in real time. Let me emphasize that just like an eclipse, you DON’T want to look at the sun. Make a pinhole camera, or get some solar viewing glasses, and don’t look at the sun with a telescope or binoculars unless those devices are properly protected. Frying your eye is simply no fun and can ruin your day.
Here’s some NASA information about the transit and some general photography tips, although they don’t apply specifically to your iPhone camera. If you want even more information, the Bad Astronomy website has a good collection of facts and tips.
Enjoy the transit, if you can see it. It will be visible in about 2/3 of the world, so if the weather cooperates you should have no trouble seeing Venus glide in front of the sun. Most of us won’t have a chance to see the next transit, so good luck.
Check the gallery to see how SkySafari simulates the event.
Gallery: Venus Transit
If you’re going to check out the Venus transit try to capture it with your iPhone originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:iBackFlip Somersault: A versatile high-quality bag for your iPad
Back at Macworld | iWorld 2012, TUAW editor-in-chief Victor Agreda had a chance to talk with the creator of the iBackFlip Somersault (US$ 89.95). Now that this iPad bag has been in the wild for a time and has gone through a few design revisions, we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to review the Somersault. Be sure to read through to the end of the post for details on entering to win an iBackFlip Somersault in a TUAW giveaway.
Of all of the myriad bags that we receive at the TUAW Labs, I have to say that the iBackFlip Somersault is one of the most unique I’ve seen. At first glance, it appears to be a sling-type backpack just big enough for an iPad or perhaps a MacBook Air. It can actually carry both of those Apple products (up to a 13″ MacBook Air) at the same with no problem.
The real difference shows up when you open the main fold-out pocket on the Somersault. On one side is a slide-in holder for an iPad, complete with a hole for the rear-facing camera (more about that later) and not one, but two stylus holders. In that same pocket are two thin straps that can either be unlatched so that the iPad can be folded out flat for TSA inspection or folded over to sit on your lap or a desktop, or latched to let the case hold your iPad as if it’s on a portable desk in front of you.
Gallery: iBackFlip Somersault
This is the killer feature of the Somersault, and the thing that really makes it stand out in the crowd. Who would use something like this? Let’s say you’re in the oil business and you’re using an iPad to look at well logs (yes, there’s an app for that) — while you’re standing near a drilling rig, you can be looking at the logs hands-free. Or you’re taking surveys at a theme park using an iPad. You can be standing with a customer talking to them, and typing with both hands on the iPad entering data.
I can see where the Somersault would be even more useful in the medical field, where nurses and doctors might have an iPad with them on rounds. The iPad can be hidden away in the backpack while they’re working with a patient, then flipped out to type on to take notes or check prior readings.
That cool little fold-out “desk” panel isn’t the only feature of the iBackFlip Somersault, though. Starting at the front of the bag, there’s a medium sized zippered pocket into which you can fit things like cables or an extended battery pack. There’s also a full-sized zippered pocket that reveals a hole for the iPad camera to peek through if you need to take pictures. It’s big enough to hide paperwork or a dead-tree book.
Moving beyond the iPad fold-out compartment, there’s another padded full-sized zippered pocket, perfect for carrying another iPad or a MacBook Air. Even the sling strap is chock-full of useful features — there’s a zippered pocket for an iPhone, six elastic bands for either routing a cable from an iPad to earphones or to clip things to, a loop for hanging the bag from a coat hook, and two key hooks.
You might think that all of this capability would come with a big weight penalty, but the bag weighs in at just a hair under two pounds. The back of the Somersault is covered with a perforated material to keep your back cool even in muggy conditions. And if that mugginess turns into a torrential downpour, you’ll be happy to know that the case is water resistant.
ConclusionWhat impresses me the most is how iBackFlip managed to pack so much carrying capacity into such a slim and lightweight case. I have some back issues that have been causing me some pain when I carry a couple of iPads in a standard over-the-shoulder bag; the iBackFlip Somersault is much more comfortable, and I don’t have to scrunch up a shoulder to keep the strap is going to falling off.
Sure, the Somersault doesn’t have the carrying capacity of some larger bags I own that can handle two DSLRs, tons of cables and power bricks, etc… But those bags are also bulky and uncomfortable, and I don’t need the extra capacity all the time.
For anyone who just needs to carry an iPad and a MacBook Air, with a few cables and accessories, and wants the ability to use their device while standing up, the Somersault is the perfect solution. It’s hands-down the most versatile iPad bag I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing.
GiveawayOne of the great regrets of being a reviewer at TUAW is that we don’t keep review items. However, our loss is your gain — we’re giving away our review Somersault to a lucky TUAW reader. Just fill out the form below (one entry per person only), click or tap Submit, and you’ll be entered into our giveaway.
Here are the rules for the giveaway: Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older. To enter, fill out the form below completely and click or tap the Submit button. The entry must be made before May 30, 2012 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time. You may enter only once. One winner will be selected and will receive an iBackFlip Somersault valued at $ 89.95 Click Here for complete Official Rules.Loading…
iBackFlip Somersault: A versatile high-quality bag for your iPad originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 27 May 2012 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you’re like me, you’ve got a hard drive filling up with images. I do a lot of landscape photography, and while I normally shoot in RAW format, they get output as jpegs for the web, email, and the printing service I use. Over the years I’ve seen a lot of applications that will shrink jpegs, and the jpeg itself is already much smaller than anything that started out in raw, native Photoshop or TIF format.
I was offered a new OS X app called JPEGmini to test, and it is impressive. You can drag a folder of photos or even a complete hard drive onto JPEGmini and it goes to work, showing each image it opens and keeping track of how much is saved. It supports images from 2 MB to 17 MB in size, and I have some larger files so the app warned me those would not be shrunk.
I was a bit skeptical of this shrinking process, so I opened up some of my detailed landscape images and looked at them in Photoshop. I couldn’t see any significant difference in the before and after images. I should note that I duplicated a folder of images for this test and worked on the copy, because once you shrink the photos, there is no going back. I saw more than 50% reduction in file size, and there would have been more if I didn’t have so many files in that folder larger than 17 MB. This is very nice for sending files via email because I can reduce the file size while keeping the quality.
Best of all is that your photos stay in jpg format. No program is going to have trouble opening them.
If you want some details on the process, the developers go into more depth about how the application works. Besides the file size caveat, the program only works on jpegs.
JPEGmini is US $ 19.99 through the Mac App Store. It’s a little pricey, but it does what it claims. It mightnot be for the pro photographer, but I think most amateur and semi-pros will be thrilled at the drive space you get back. If you’d like to see how the program works without any investment, the developers have a free service on their website where you can upload some files and let their server shrink them and return them to you.
Check the gallery for some comparison shots, but remember that these examples are further reduced in quality when we publish them.
Gallery: JPEGmini
JPEGmini puts your images on a diet originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 14 May 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:PhotoFunia creates seamless Special FX on your iPhone
PhotoFunia is a clever and free novelty app for iPhone camera buffs. It will allow you to create a variety of special effects that would take quite awhile in something like Photoshop.
Here are some examples: Using face detection, it can take a photo of a friend and cleanly insert the face over another body like an astronaut in a space suit or someone atop a motorcycle or a surf board.
Additionally, it can take any scene and matte it into an existing frame. Get your picture in lights in Times Square or get a scene in an art museum with everyone admiring your favorite pictures.
The app requires a data connection to work. PhotoFunia sports more than 250 different effects and more are added on a regular basis.
I pretty much yawn at endless effect and filter apps, but this app offers some new twists and it works very well. It will work on iPad, but it is not a universal app (it works in 2x iPhone compatibility mode). My only complaint is that the photos are not rendered at full resolution, which would be a real plus.
If this were a paid app I would recommend it. As a free app (with ads), it is a no-brainer if you want to create some whimsical images to share with family and friends.
The app is a 2.4 MB download and requires iOS 3.0 or greater. Check the gallery for some of my creations, and check the PhotoFunia website for samples of all the effects.
Gallery: PhotoFunia
PhotoFunia creates seamless Special FX on your iPhone originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Question by : How to delete something on your mac computer? Hi, I downloaded a ‘sticky notes’ thing on my mac computer and it went into my “dock” which is basically your toolbar. Now I can’t get rid of it, and when I try to download other sticky notes downloads, it does not work!!!
Sorry, I like just got this mac and so I’m kind of new to it…:)
Best answer:
Answer by SilverTonguedDevilRestart, and then drag the unwanted item off the Dock and drop it on the desktop.
Stickies is a unique app that appeared in 1994. It will be gone soon, replaced by an iOS-ish thing called “Notes”.
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Related Posts:CordCruncher headphones: A sound way to keep your life tangle-free
Kickstarter has launched a number of innovative products, and one caught my attention a few weeks ago — the CordCruncher headphones. The inventor, Jay Johnson, claimed that he’d come up with a way of keeping headphone cables from tangling. Sure enough, his product works amazingly well and the project is now funded on Kickstarter with a few days to go. Read along for a short review of the product, then go back the project on Kickstarter for $ 20 to get a set of these ‘phones for your very own.
The idea behind the CordCruncher headphones is rather simple — there’s an elastic sleeve that surrounds the cables. To use the headphones, you simply pull down on the sleeve until you get the cables out to the length you want between 16 inches and 3.5 feet. When you’re done listening, you “zip” the cables back into the sleeve with a quick tug. The short video at the end of this post shows how it’s done, and I can vouch for how well the CordCruncher works.
What’s really unique is that you can also plug the headphone jack into the top of the CordCruncher to carry your headphones around your neck necklace-like or as a wristband. It’s the first set of headphones that’s also a fashion accessory!
In case you’re wondering, the CordCruncher headphones also provide good sound quality. They use in-ear buds with a set of different-sized inserts for the ultimate in listening comfort. Don’t just sit there, support the CordCruncher project before Friday, April 20 at 9:01 AM EDT and get a set for yourself.
CordCruncher headphones: A sound way to keep your life tangle-free originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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