If someone sends you an email that uses the same email address they use for LinkedIn, the app will add their job title, photo, and all your shared contacts to their email.
For this to happen, you need to give LinkedIn your email password and all your outgoing and incoming email will be routed through their servers.
I know that the NSA reads everybody's messages and Google stores almost everybody's messages so I suppose it hardly matters. But...ew.
I deleted my account there. I suppose that means I'll never get a job again.
http://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2013/10/linkedin-intro/
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/articles/2013_10_24_good_news_bad_news_linkedin_data_in_ios_mail_arrives_but_it_can_read_your_mail.html
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