LinkedIn : Privacy and security issues concerns

  

  LinkedIn is one of the most wonderful social networking service mobile applications that is specifically designed for the business community. It is an incredible networking tool which has a huge database of information that helps to connect professionals with others in the same career field and reconnect to their preferable co-workers or employees. Registered members are allowed to post information about their related business or industry interests, which makes this is a powerful tool in recruitment of new employees outside the immediate vicinity and connecting with others inside an industry. However, there is still a major concern when using LinkedIn, which is the privacy and security issues. It will reveal a person’s personal information in the LinkedIn profile such as the information about a person’s daily activity feed or activity broadcasts.

This is not a good scenario of letting everyone to know what an individual is updating on their LinkedIn profiles, also the people they connect with. Hence, some information on this platform have to be kept safely by managing their privacy levels so as to prevent leakage of important information, falling into the wrong hands.

Source :

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/security101/a/Linkedin-Privacy-And-Security-Tips.htm

Author :

Lim Teng Choon (B1402118)