Coming here from https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38379794/comments/38383710

Noticed that when linking to a JIRA issue from Confluence, the 'updated field' in JIRA gets updated too, which a) is unexpected because it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with engineering work per se and b) derails the engineering flow completely because you can no longer trust the updated date field as a data-driven tracker.

My suggestion is that it can stay the default if people are happy with this, but at the very least it should be configurable so that you make it 'silent', in that you could still reference a JIRA issue in Confluence, but it would have no impact on the 'updated' field in JIRA.