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LinkedIn’s iOS app transmits names, emails, and calendar notes, in plain text

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Re: LinkedIn’s iOS app transmits names, emails, and calendar notes, in plain text

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Thank you very much for looking out. It appears that this has been going on a bit. Matthew, can you help with the following pieces that also do not have my name attached to them, please? Doing so on both the desktop and mobile version would be greatly appreciated! http://thenextweb.com/location/2011/08/01/foursquare-reporte... http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/05/14/milestone-foursquar... http://thenextweb.com/apps/…

Wow - I knew they were bad at image attribution, but that's just plain awful. And these are just the photos from one photographer that have been improperly used! TNW clearly has a large gap in their reporting standards that needs to be corrected.

Zee Kane, CEO of TNW is correcting the issue: https://twitter.com/Zee/status/210444016016306176 https://twitter.com/Zee/status/210444266185560064

Thank you all for your help and support!

Re: LinkedIn’s iOS app transmits names, emails, and calendar notes, in plain text

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I'm hopeful that they'll do the right thing.

Hello Nan, thank you for collecting those links, I know that it took your personal time to find those and we'll definitely make sure that you're credited properly in them. All of the posts appear to have an 'image credit' or 'photo source' link back to your Flickr profile, but we understand that this isn't good enough and from now on will be moving image sources into the body of the article. Please accept our apologi…

Apologize accepted, thank you for the correction!

Re: LinkedIn’s iOS app transmits names, emails, and calendar notes, in plain text

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Wow - I knew they were bad at image attribution, but that's just plain awful. And these are just the photos from one photographer that have been improperly used! TNW clearly has a large gap in their reporting standards that needs to be corrected.

Zee Kane, CEO of TNW is correcting the issue: https://twitter.com/Zee/status/210444016016306176 https://twitter.com/Zee/status/210444266185560064 Thank you all for your help and support!

Glad to see it! Credit links in the body will be a great improvement!
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