Zoom Removes Tool That Secretly Displayed Your LinkedIn Data

One such add-on for Zoom is LinkedIn Sales Navigator, which is actually a rather cunning data miner.
With LinkedIn Sales Navigator enabled on Zoom, the person running a meeting can get LinkedIn data about any of the participants.
According to a New York Times investigation, the problem is not simply that LinkedIn Sales Navigator can grab data from LinkedIn.
Even if you choose to join a meeting with a nickname or with the anonymous flag enabled, LinkedIn Sales Navigator gets your real LinkedIn data and provides it to the organizer.
The LinkedIn Sales Navigator continues to exist on LinkedIn, where it costs $80 per month as before and still plugs in to numerous other services.

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