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It is, by most accounts, impossible to get Linkedin to give up your personal information. I just checked and they've got three or four accounts under my name- accounts they set up, on their own, with info their system harvested by scraping the internet. Two of them are sending notices to my email inbox.
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Polygynous posted:also from the comments, a slightly less terrible future, also from japan So Lady Dynamite wasn't just being clever?
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Feb 2, 2018 22:26
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Discendo Vox posted:It is, by most accounts, impossible to get Linkedin to give up your personal information. I just checked and they've got three or four accounts under my name- accounts they set up, on their own, with info their system harvested by scraping the internet. Two of them are sending notices to my email inbox. That sounds like something that should be illegal.
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Feb 2, 2018 22:51
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Schubalts posted:That sounds like something that should be illegal. New thread title people!
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Feb 2, 2018 23:06
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MiddleOne posted:New thread title people! The fall of unicorns: that sounds like something that should be illegal.
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Feb 2, 2018 23:18
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Discendo Vox posted:It is, by most accounts, impossible to get Linkedin to give up your personal information. I just checked and they've got three or four accounts under my name- accounts they set up, on their own, with info their system harvested by scraping the internet. Two of them are sending notices to my email inbox. I set up a linkedin account last year for the first time with an email address I made brand new and it immediately started recommending me women I dated 14 years prior as connections.
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Feb 2, 2018 23:24
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Tars Tarkas posted:I set up a linkedin account last year for the first time with an email address I made brand new and it immediately started recommending me women I dated 14 years prior as connections. scary post or subtle brag I can't decide
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Feb 3, 2018 00:26
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mycomancy posted:The fall of unicorns: that sounds like something that should be illegal.
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Feb 3, 2018 00:33
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linkedin totally scrapes your gmail account at least and tries to match every person you've ever emailed to a linkedin account as i discovered when i was informed that someone joined who i hadn't seen in ten years, who i never corresponded with or had any social media contact with except for one email she sent me about housesitting for her for a summer, and linkedin sent me like five emails telling me all about what this person was up to in her job on the other side of the world
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Feb 3, 2018 00:33
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boner confessor posted:linkedin totally scrapes your gmail account at least and tries to match every person you've ever emailed to a linkedin account It took them about a year and a half to link me to my boss from other connections and personal email we never communicate with each other with.
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Feb 3, 2018 00:41
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Polygynous posted:also from the comments, a slightly less terrible future, also from japan I'm not going to dive into the Twatter sewer, but are people actually taking that seriously as a serious invention and not realising that it's just a joke scene from a TV commercial? it involves japan, of course they're taking it seriously
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Feb 3, 2018 00:48
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I suppose I should delete my LinkedIn account if they even allow me to do that
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Feb 3, 2018 01:01
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I’d keep it active, just to have control over your own profile. Keep it empty if you don’t want to give them your info.
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Feb 3, 2018 01:03
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Any time a web page asks permission to access your gmail account tell it "no".
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Schubalts posted:That sounds like something that should be illegal. It is in the EU.
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actionjackson posted:I suppose I should delete my LinkedIn account if they even allow me to do that If you figure out how, I'm pretty sure there's a Macarthur and a Nobel in it for you if you publish the process.
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Feb 3, 2018 01:09
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withak posted:Any time a web page asks permission to access your gmail account tell it "no". The problem with LinkedIn is that they scrape OTHER people's email accounts and build networks based on that. Even if you have never used LinkedIn, when you create an account, they will already have you "on file" based on every other person who has emailed you or received an email from you who signed up and let them peek at their contacts.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:The problem with LinkedIn is that they scrape OTHER people's email accounts and build networks based on that. Even if you have never used LinkedIn, when you create an account, they will already have you "on file" based on every other person who has emailed you or received an email from you who signed up and let them peek at their contacts. Facebook is the same way. This isn’t unique to LinkedIn.
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Trevor Hale posted:Facebook is the same way. This isn’t unique to LinkedIn. Yeah, but LinkedIn is far more obvious about it. Orwell never would have guessed that we would privatize Big Brother.
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BrandorKP posted:It took them about a year and a half to link me to my boss from other connections and personal email we never communicate with each other with. They don’t even have to have an email between you, just a shared name linked to an email. Like if I emailed your account A using account 1 then they could match my account 2 to your account B. Facebook also has a huge relational DB to do the same thing. They can predict with high confidence that a person exists despite having no online presence.
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FB's database hosts with a great degree of confidence every person in the third world. There's zero chance they don't have you on it, whether you've ever used the site or not.
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cowofwar posted:They can predict with high confidence that a person exists despite having no online presence. I wonder if Facebook thinks I exist? I don't have an account but they might because they bought Spotify. On the other hand there are many people with my exact name. The credit agencies occasionally mix us up (which is a pain.) I am pretty sure I've never appeared in any photo posted on Facebook and have probably never been mentioned in a Facebook post. I also haven't show up in web search result since about 2008.
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Feb 3, 2018 05:46
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One of the engineers who designed LinkedIn's data storage told me they scrape EVERYTHING. Their data store includes all of Twitter's public data, everyone's email contacts, and most of Facebook's public data.
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Baby Babbeh posted:One of the engineers who designed LinkedIn's data storage told me they scrape EVERYTHING. Their data store includes all of Twitter's public data, everyone's email contacts, and most of Facebook's public data. Did you ask him how he sleeps at night?
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BrandorKP posted:I wonder if Facebook thinks I exist? I don't have an account but they might because they bought Spotify. On the other hand there are many people with my exact name. The credit agencies occasionally mix us up (which is a pain.) I am pretty sure I've never appeared in any photo posted on Facebook and have probably never been mentioned in a Facebook post. I also haven't show up in web search result since about 2008. Facebook doesn't own Spotify
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Feb 3, 2018 14:03
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Nobody owns Spotify. They can’t make money It’s because they offer a valuable service instead of the Internet companies worth billions that do nothing for anyone
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That and the licensing demands to be able to operate in the USA are pretty lopsided.
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Spotify is pretty much owned by the last few record companies that remain active. They're not allowed to die (that would increase piracy by 100%), but they first have to pay them before they pay the artists and whats left might as well not exist.
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Jose Valasquez posted:Facebook doesn't own Spotify I see now they bought an "undisclosed" number of shares. For a while one had to have a Facebook account to have a spotify account, unless one signed up early. I see that has all changed. Good Lord.
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BrandorKP posted:I see now they bought an "undisclosed" number of shares. For a while one had to have a Facebook account to have a spotify account, unless one signed up early. I see that has all changed. Good Lord.
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It was very early after the service started. I remember being glad I signed up for an account before it required a linked Facebook account. Guess it didn't last long.
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It’s going to be hilarious when NYC gives them nothing and still wins (because Amazon already bought a ton of office space there)
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hobbesmaster posted:It’s going to be hilarious when NYC gives them nothing and still wins (because Amazon already bought a ton of office space there) Toronto Canada because of prospective cuts to the US Visa system.
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karthun posted:Toronto Canada because of prospective cuts to the US Visa system. As if housing in Toronto wasn't already pricey enough. 
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I haven't followed to closely, but are there any finalists in California? CA has an extremely broad public records act and open meeting laws which could make for fun.
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nm posted:I haven't followed to closely, but are there any finalists in California? CA has an extremely broad public records act and open meeting laws which could make for fun. LA
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Feb 3, 2018 23:35
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Oooooooh. Newspapers are really good and aggressive with this stuff generally.
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nm posted:Oooooooh. Newspapers are really good and aggressive with this stuff generally. Showed up on my Google News feed the day of the announcement, and I'm in Albany, NY, which famously will not be getting it.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Showed up on my Google News feed the day of the announcement, and I'm in Albany, NY, which famously will not be getting it. My point being that if amazon has an nda with la, latimes will probably litigate the gently caress out of it. Our PRA comes with attorney fees for violations IIRC.
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