One way to attack this in a larger scale is to get the responsible politicians somehow outed in media by any of these databases. For example one media article that got good spread here was when the newspaper bought the GPS-tracking information for a politician and wrote about it (they did not publish it, no need to).
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#102If anyone cares, there are a nontrivial amount of companies who have your 'private' LinkedIn info. I don't know if they make fake accounts to friend you, recruiter profiles, or buy it from LinkedIn. I asked one to please remove my info, and they sent me a CCPA form. I told them I didn't live in California, and an agent acted confused and told me to just fill it out, it's the only way to remove it. In short, don't tru…
crunchbase is one such place. they harvested everything from my LinkedIn, I asked them to remove my profile they say it's not possible unless I also send them additional data (scan of my passport). they say it's impossible to remove my info because it is "crowd sourced" which may be the case today but from the data they have on me it is from when they had no users yet and when they scraped sh!t from linkedin: * Hello…
I mean is their point of view completely wrong? If they are displaying a profile based on public information that’s journalism.
Lists of people who invested in companies, culled from public disclosures, or names of corporate board members and such, aren’t the same thing as private PII.
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#104So interestingly enough, a Facebook account I made years ago that was only used as a test is somehow in the records linked to my current address. Facebook is literally the only person that knows about this account and its never been attached to my personal FB account. It's making me really suspect right now...
Why? This is Facebook's business model. They have a shadow profile for you and managed to link your test account or some other service they own (whatsapp?) with your real account. They only need a single data point.
> Why?
... is irrelevant IIRC. He's asking How.
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#105Thanks, Josh!
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#106Are there any paid services that will do the work to opt you out of all of these?
Seriously, I'd pay 100 dollars right now if someone just handled this all for me. And I'm sure at least a few thousands of others would too. Sounds like a decent startup idea to me. Edit to add: I did read the other comments. joindeleteme seems like a scam/money grab. Yearly sub that autorenews, and a BBB rating displayed? Give me a real tech service.
Better yet, one that sends paper opt-outs by registered mail to maximize removal cost and receipt confirmation. It’s not expensive when there’s 100 names in 8pt font in each envelope.
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#107If anyone cares, there are a nontrivial amount of companies who have your 'private' LinkedIn info. I don't know if they make fake accounts to friend you, recruiter profiles, or buy it from LinkedIn. I asked one to please remove my info, and they sent me a CCPA form. I told them I didn't live in California, and an agent acted confused and told me to just fill it out, it's the only way to remove it. In short, don't tru…
Now the question is: Do they keep a track of these CCPA forms? Is there a data collection of people asking to remove their info.
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#108If anyone cares, there are a nontrivial amount of companies who have your 'private' LinkedIn info. I don't know if they make fake accounts to friend you, recruiter profiles, or buy it from LinkedIn. I asked one to please remove my info, and they sent me a CCPA form. I told them I didn't live in California, and an agent acted confused and told me to just fill it out, it's the only way to remove it. In short, don't tru…
crunchbase is one such place. they harvested everything from my LinkedIn, I asked them to remove my profile they say it's not possible unless I also send them additional data (scan of my passport). they say it's impossible to remove my info because it is "crowd sourced" which may be the case today but from the data they have on me it is from when they had no users yet and when they scraped sh!t from linkedin: * Hello…
"It is your responsibility under GDPR not to store information about me without my explicit consent..."
Not commenting on the particulars of this case (you might be right in this particular instance), as a general statement this is not true. Consent is only one of several possible legal grounds for processing personal data. Generally, data controllers want to avoid it if possible in lieu of more convenient grounds. Nitpicking more, explicit consent is mentioned only as a processing ground for so called special category data, i.e. certain sensitive data, e.g. health data, requiring an additional legal ground.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
LinkedIn is pure cancer. They actively tempt you to message your contacts in a way where you think that the recepient would welcome your message right now but it's an opposite situation. This at best creates a communication gap and is at worst rude and might break up communication. I'm shocked that Microsoft which is primarily bases on trust as far as corporate stuff is concerned went for linkedin. I hope they sell t…
I'm always surprised at the number of people in infosec or _really interesting_ defense positions who have linkedin profiles. It's the lowest rung of where nation states target and you've just handed it to them on a platter. As horrible as it sounds you all sort of deserve it for selling your soul to such a horrendous platform hellbent on fucking with its users. For some reason we're all worried about tiktok now thou…
It suspect the Facebook DBA+backup teams are the most diverse team in the planet. They surely have representatives from every worthy intelligence service on earth working in perfect harmony.
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#110If anyone cares, there are a nontrivial amount of companies who have your 'private' LinkedIn info. I don't know if they make fake accounts to friend you, recruiter profiles, or buy it from LinkedIn. I asked one to please remove my info, and they sent me a CCPA form. I told them I didn't live in California, and an agent acted confused and told me to just fill it out, it's the only way to remove it. In short, don't tru…
LinkedIn is pure cancer. They actively tempt you to message your contacts in a way where you think that the recepient would welcome your message right now but it's an opposite situation. This at best creates a communication gap and is at worst rude and might break up communication. I'm shocked that Microsoft which is primarily bases on trust as far as corporate stuff is concerned went for linkedin. I hope they sell t…
Even worse, the official LinkedIn support team are Community Volunteers.
eg not paid employees, any anyone who "volunteers" to help out.
The many failure scenarios for that combined with peoples (sensitive) private information are mind boggling.