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This is so weird, how is this legal? No other type of company just tacks on stuff to agreements and contracts and says “you want this” so how come US tech companies are always getting away with it?
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In their TOS they probably give themselves the right to do whatever the hell they want with the stuff you post there. If you store your data on someone else's computer, it's not yours any more, no matter how personal it is.
TOS do not, in practice, constitute informed consent, especially if they are silently changed, without a human readable summary and an explicit opt-in
Also, if you already “agreed” to TOS that lets them do whatever they want, they don't need to change it.
Preferences to turn off https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/data-for-a... https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/policy-and...
For me, 1st link is 404 and 2nd one was already OFF by default. EU.
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There's also real money in writing LinkedIn content that is believable enough for "influencers" to post. I'm currently contracting, and post on LinkedIn at least once a day, and I've added ~1k+ followers in the last month, but it takes effort. Meanwhile, those posts have gotten me work, and so if it was feasible for me to outsource it in a reputationally safe way, I'd consider it. For me the bar for "reputationally s…
I hope you realize that if everyone can do "computational influencing", everyone will . A Nash Equilibrium of automated bullshit, it'll just make everything more miserable, programmatically.