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Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by dr_dshiv »

Pixeleen wrote: post #299
staunch wrote: post #115

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When I submit the myprivacy.equifax.com validation it hangs at "Processing..." indefinitely. #AbolishCreditAgencies

Credit, bank checking (ChexSystems), and personal information aggregators like Lexis Nexis and Thomson Reuters Clear ought to be abolished or curbed indeed. I hate to bring trans politics into this. I'm sure that's the last thing anybody wants to hear about right now. However we are a class of people whose sexuality can be unfairly identified by these databases.

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Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by exdsq »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #298
exdsq wrote: post #252

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Out of interest what’s your cv look like for that rate?

https://battle.shawwn.com/Shawn%20Presser's%20Resume.pdf If it looks surprisingly dull, I hope it inspires you to realize you can get similar rates. I’m not particularly special; just determined, and willing to say no to low offers. (The initial offer was salary equal to half this rate plus stock. Being completely uninterested in stock is a tricky thing — you can offend your colleagues unless you’re especially tactfu…

Interesting! I assumed ML consulting would require a long academic record (not saying the work requires that, just that there’s probably a bias towards that). How did you go from information security to ML? I’m taking some night classes at a local uni in the bay on ML to pick some of it up and might consider making a move once I’ve finished with my current work

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by lhh »

Pixeleen wrote: post #299
staunch wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I submit the myprivacy.equifax.com validation it hangs at "Processing..." indefinitely. #AbolishCreditAgencies

Credit, bank checking (ChexSystems), and personal information aggregators like Lexis Nexis and Thomson Reuters Clear ought to be abolished or curbed indeed. I hate to bring trans politics into this. I'm sure that's the last thing anybody wants to hear about right now. However we are a class of people whose sexuality can be unfairly identified by these databases.

Hopefully TransUnion is more respectful of your rights.

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by throwaway2037 »

davidsawyer wrote: post #161
BeefySwain wrote: post #91

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Hijacking here to say, literally all you need to get access to someones employment + salary history is their SSN and birthdate. edit: and a past employer that used this system Birthdays are extremely easy to get (public record), and I seem to recall a specific large organization leaking a bunch of SSN's not too long ago.......

And you'd need to know a past employer, right? I couldn't seem to find a way to get access to the info without inputting an employer first.

Many people post their professional career on LinkedIn. Again, it seems easy to find this information through public sources.

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Post by bananamansion »

nmfisher wrote: post #244
ChuckMcM wrote: post #152

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I don't disagree with this. My experience though is that a more common reason it is a headache for some managers if their reports are sharing salary information is that they don't know how to have a conversation with someone about their performance. In particular their less than great performance. So employee B comes in and says, "Hey employee A makes 15% more than I do and we have the same job! I even have more expe…

Yeah, this explains a lot of it. Lots of people think it's unfair that Jim or Pam makes more than they do, but noone ever is blunt with them that "you're making less because you're not as good as them". Even worse are where they've never been told "you're lucky you still even have a job because I was close to firing you for poor performance". To be fair, there are also the interesting niche cases where someone is equ…

if youre one of the employees that found out youre being paid significantly less than your team how do you convince your manager to increase your pay? Knowing youre high performing

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Post by Larrikin »

yoaviram wrote: post #347
BeefySwain wrote: post #21

NOTE: It is possible to freeze access to your employment data here: https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze That being said, it doesn't stop employers from continuing to hand Equifax your data on a gold platter, and therefore does nothing to protect you from the inevitable data breach that will result in Equifax being required to give everyone affected $0.36 or one year of free credit monitoring.

Or send them a CCPA data deletion request: https://yourdigitalrights.org/d/equifax.com . This will generate a request email. You can then change the wordings to indicate that you are interested in deleting your salary history data. Disclaimer: I'm one of the creators of YourDigitalRights.org.

What are the potential ramifications for submitting a request on your site when you don't have residency in one of the listed areas?

Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by [deleted] »

lhh wrote: post #363
Pixeleen wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Credit, bank checking (ChexSystems), and personal information aggregators like Lexis Nexis and Thomson Reuters Clear ought to be abolished or curbed indeed. I hate to bring trans politics into this. I'm sure that's the last thing anybody wants to hear about right now. However we are a class of people whose sexuality can be unfairly identified by these databases.

Hopefully TransUnion is more respectful of your rights.

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Re: Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

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Post by the_arun »

givemeethekeys wrote: post #51
BeefySwain wrote: post #21

NOTE: It is possible to freeze access to your employment data here: https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze That being said, it doesn't stop employers from continuing to hand Equifax your data on a gold platter, and therefore does nothing to protect you from the inevitable data breach that will result in Equifax being required to give everyone affected $0.36 or one year of free credit monitoring.

But, I didn't opt in for them to have this information about me to begin with.

So a new company you are joining can easily verify your current salary with your ssn & dob. Right? They have your history of employers from your resume already.
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