by lessismore

Today's not a good day to be a LinkedIn user—doubly so if you use LinkedIn's iPhone or Android app. Researchers have discovered that the app scrapes users' Calendar items and sends the data back up to its servers, even when those Calendar items were created outside of the LinkedIn app. The scraped data includes participant lists, subject of the entry, time of the meeting, and any attached meeting notes (such as dial-in details and passcodes).