[stevenacreman]

Has anyone tried signing up for remote.com?

I just did and they wanted an email for jobs which I thought was OK.

Then I tried to add a profile and it prompted me to export my entire LinkedIn history. It says to export "The Works".

My LinkedIn is quite massive and I've checked the export for "The Works" includes my entire contact list.

That's pretty shady. Why not just import my profile? There's an option to export only profile data. How many people will follow these default instructions and upload everything they have ever done on LinkedIn?

[jobvandervoort]

We should be much more transparent about this, you're right.

We're going to split this up between your profile and your contacts, and make it explicit what happens.

[purephase]

I know it's nice to see you in here and commenting, but I have to weigh in a bit to offer advice. These types of issues shouldn't exist in a modern application. Particularly one that deals with a fairly sensitive subject for a lot of people (looking for work).

I hope it's not an indication of the overall data handling approach within the application in general and just an oversight for launch. It might be worthwhile to re-visit your internal policies/review practice for safe harbour and be upfront about it.

Just a suggestion!

[SmellyGeekBoy]

Are you actually doing anything with the contacts currently or is that data discarded?

[giancarlostoro]

Thank you. I never like to import my contacts cause they don't necessarily give me consent to share their contact information, but importing the other bits from a profile is certainly useful.

[aptwebapps]

I felt the same, but exported just my profile from LinkedIn and the import worked all right.