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FWIW, I've been scrubbing my social profiles. LinkedIn, Yelp, Facebook, etc. Barest of bones. Removing all connections, photos, posts, personal details. (I know the damage is already done. The aggregators never really delete anything.) Why not just out right delete my profiles? I'm squatting. To ensure they're not used as socket puppets. After a beloved coworker passed, their profile got highjacked. Ten years later,…
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If someone merely knowing your phone number is a security risk that really seems like a flaw that should be addressed with the phone system and not by treating the numbers like sensitive information.
I've seen worse. All you need to use a credit card is the number printed on it and still we hand it to strangers to run off with for 3 minutes like nothing.
Why would you do that?
Where are all the folks who were complaining about the LinkedIn anti-scraping court case destroying the open web? This is what LinkedIn is fighting against.
Is this on top of the 500M in April? https://cybernews.com/news/stolen-data-of-500-million-linked... Or is this a follow on with the rest of the data? Either way, it's pretty shoddy that they haven't put a stop to it
I think we finally know what that bowl of petunias meant with "oh no, not again".
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I've seen worse. All you need to use a credit card is the number printed on it and still we hand it to strangers to run off with for 3 minutes like nothing.
> and still we hand it to strangers to run off with for 3 minutes like nothing. Why would you do that?
FWIW, I've been scrubbing my social profiles. LinkedIn, Yelp, Facebook, etc. Barest of bones. Removing all connections, photos, posts, personal details. (I know the damage is already done. The aggregators never really delete anything.) Why not just out right delete my profiles? I'm squatting. To ensure they're not used as socket puppets. After a beloved coworker passed, their profile got highjacked. Ten years later,…
Not surprising really. A few years back Hotmail/Outlook were returning people's Twitter/LinkedIn handles for emails sent/received. It had been noticed you could scrape that fairly easily at scale. With one email account you could check up to 30000 email addresses before being flagged by Outlook. Slightly longer ago you could simply iterate 1...n on LinkedIn URLs to find someone's profile, by converting the number to…
This is one of those functionality aspects all these social/networking sites fall foul of one way or another, be email or phone number relational suggestions. That and the aspect of this scraping of phone numbers or emails - even with the users permission, kinda moots the owner of those email and phone details. But does seem that once you give anybody your email or phone number, it kinda one way or another falls into the public domain level of privacy. Heck how many contact details via email or phone numbers do these sites hold on people who never even held an account with them.
Be nice if the law and data privacy had some global standards as this region/country by country aspect does nobody any good and in a World in which taxation works with the same model, do we really want to let data protection end up with data havens in much the same way as tax does.