LinkedIn to Cut Controversial Intro Feature for Apple Mail
“Intro reconfigures your iOS device (e.g. iPhone, iPad) so that all of your emails go through LinkedIn’s servers,” Bishop Fox analysts Vinnie Liu and Carl Livitt explained at the time. “You read that right. Once you install the Intro app, all of your emails, both sent and received, are transmitted via LinkedIn’s servers. LinkedIn is forcing all your IMAP and SMTP data through their own servers and then analyzing and scraping your emails for data pertaining to…whatever they feel like.”