Last night I applied for a job, and there was a link that you can click to allow the website to access your LinkedIn information.  I clicked on this.  I usually breeze through this because all these applications just want to access your basic information.  I entered my password and hit enter when I looked at the screen and realized that I agreed to the following:<p>iCIMS would like to access some of your LinkedIn info:<p>YOUR PROFILE OVERVIEW<p>YOUR FULL PROFILE<p>YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS<p>YOUR CONNECTIONS<p>YOUR CONTACT INFO<p>NETWORK UPDATES<p>GROUP DISCUSSIONS<p>INVITATIONS AND MESSAGES<p>So I looked up what this meant :<p>Network Updates - Retrieves and posts updates as you.<p>Group Discussions - Retrieves and posts group discussions 
as you.<p>Invitations and Messages - Sends messages and invitations to connect as you.<p>So it seems I gave them access to pretty much every feature except the ability to close my account and&#x2F;or change the password (which I promptly did.)  Woops.<p>This is a category of dark patterns: have the user click on something that has been benign the last 20 times they&#x27;ve seen something similar, but this time isn&#x27;t.