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How did LinkedIn get the permission to access my AAD profile?
Hi All, I've just come across this thread.
We identified a bug in the profile user interface that incorrectly displayed a settings control for a feature that is not available. No permissions were granted. The option is not functional and there is no effect if you attempted to take action. We've rolled back the UI changes and removed the button.
I added some more thoughts here.
https://practical365.com/blog/linkedin-data-sharing-microsoft/
The wording is odd. I don't know why the permission appears in Azure AD when it seems to be saying that LinkedIn will be allowed to share data with Microsoft, not vice versa.
That said, in my blog post above I found a couple of snippets from the LinkedIn privacy policy that arguably provide consent for the sharing of our LinkedIn data with Microsoft, or at the very least that they have legitimate access to it as part of their acquisition of LinkedIn.
MicrosoftHi All, I've just come across this thread.
We identified a bug in the profile user interface that incorrectly displayed a settings control for a feature that is not available. No permissions were granted. The option is not functional and there is no effect if you attempted to take action. We've rolled back the UI changes and removed the button.
- Doesn’t seem like a simple UI mistake to me, but I’m glad it’s not functional.
I've updated my blog post with that info. Still, nobody developed that UI element, wrote the text for it, and shipped code, for a non-existent feature. Obviously something is being developed. I hope when it resurfaces there will be a lot more transparency.
Paul Cunningham wrote:... nobody developed that UI element, wrote the text for it, and shipped code, for a non-existent feature.
Rather, someone obviously developed the code with the full knowledge of some managers and introduced the code into the live version so that it appeared in production. Clearly, someone knows what is happening. If not, can we then assume that any Microsoft developer can have a random thought that they'd like to do something and just go ahead and create a new option in a shipping product?
