Just deleted the account. Thanks for the tip, OP!
Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
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Re: Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
#32This might be "false personation" under California law. See California penal code 529.[1] This is slightly different from identity theft. It's a criminal offense. The key elements of this offense are that someone else impersonated you in some way, and they derived some benefit from doing so. Because this is a criminal offense, AngelList's TOS's arbitration clause does not apply. You can file a police report with the…
Unless you have authorized them to do this under the Terms and Conditions of course.....
Re: Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
#33When you say "pretending to be me" do you mean that they spoofed your email address in the from and/or reply-to fields?
[edit: typo]
Re: Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
#34This might be "false personation" under California law. See California penal code 529.[1] This is slightly different from identity theft. It's a criminal offense. The key elements of this offense are that someone else impersonated you in some way, and they derived some benefit from doing so. Because this is a criminal offense, AngelList's TOS's arbitration clause does not apply. You can file a police report with the…
Unless you have authorized them to do this under the Terms and Conditions of course.....
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, you cannot contract your way out of criminal law.
Re: Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
#35This might be "false personation" under California law. See California penal code 529.[1] This is slightly different from identity theft. It's a criminal offense. The key elements of this offense are that someone else impersonated you in some way, and they derived some benefit from doing so. Because this is a criminal offense, AngelList's TOS's arbitration clause does not apply. You can file a police report with the…
Unless you have authorized them to do this under the Terms and Conditions of course.....
No! If an offence is criminal it can't be magically made OK by a contract.
I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
Re: Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
#36This might be "false personation" under California law. See California penal code 529.[1] This is slightly different from identity theft. It's a criminal offense. The key elements of this offense are that someone else impersonated you in some way, and they derived some benefit from doing so. Because this is a criminal offense, AngelList's TOS's arbitration clause does not apply. You can file a police report with the…
> he key elements of this offense are that someone else impersonated you in some way, and they derived some benefit from doing so.
Is Facebook usage of their user's profile pic for advertisement purpose a false impersonation too ? (I don't know if it's still in practice or if it was ever implemented)
Re: Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
#37I had big problems with the "Angel List" web site, because it was extremely flakey and appeared to be a typical piece of garbage that some dime-a-dozen huckster with very little experience had just thrown together after watching the Ruby on Rails Make Your Own Trendy Dot Com Crud Web Site in 10 Minutes screencast. Major features were totally broken. Many things about the design were devoid of thought and just haphaza…
I regularly get messages from startups who are interested in me on AL. Every time I answer, I click the "I'm interested" button, and I add a message saying that there might be something up with the site. I never hear anything back even though the other side initiated the interest.
I also get an email from an AL engineer now and again asking if things are working. Not sure they are getting my responses, because they should have asked more questions given what I replied.
AL itself also interviewed me once, and they sent a socially incompetent guy who couldn't listen properly without reverting to a script. I would answer a question and the guy would literally ask the same thing again, as if he hadn't heard me.
Totally bizarre.
Re: Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
#38I had big problems with the "Angel List" web site, because it was extremely flakey and appeared to be a typical piece of garbage that some dime-a-dozen huckster with very little experience had just thrown together after watching the Ruby on Rails Make Your Own Trendy Dot Com Crud Web Site in 10 Minutes screencast. Major features were totally broken. Many things about the design were devoid of thought and just haphaza…
Personal insults are poor form, especially when the people you're insulting have added tons of value to this community with their advice. I know this is the internet, but you're talking about real people, man.
Re: Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you have authorized them to do this under the Terms and Conditions of course.....
No! If an offence is criminal it can't be magically made OK by a contract. I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
Wouldn't it make it impossible under California law to have an agent that impersonate me? Have them tweet from my account, reply to emails in my name etc.
Re: Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
#40Hah. Good to know how this happens. I thought it was an personal insider convo...