As a certified privacy expert, I always wear a tin-foil hat
so none of this data protection, blah-blah, stuff applies to me!
LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
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Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#112> What we also don’t really know here — the DPC doesn’t really address it — is where LinkedIn obtained those 18 million email addresses, and any other related data, in the first place. Well, one such source of email addresses was me. When I joined it more than 10 years ago, I was not as privacy aware as I am today. So, upon joining, I uploaded my address book to connect to people who already had a LinkedIn account. I…
It's worse than that now. If you sign up with Gmail it will request access to view your contacts in the OAuth dialog (and will periodically keep requesting this access if you deny it). So no uploading is even necessary; it's sufficient to be using a big email provider and then accept the nag notices.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
And they get far more access to your information than they would in a browser.
Plus no opportunity to block ads + trackers, etc. in the embedded chromium-based browser.
First thing I do when I click on a link on LinkedIn is to open the context/share menu and press “open in Safari”.
Hopefully if enough people do this it will make it clear in their analytics that nobody wants their shitty knockoff browser.
The worst is that it’s using deprecated APIs on iOS that make it several times slower than Safari.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#114Has anybody closed their LinkedIn account and do you miss it? I keep procrastinating to do it myself.
Despite all of this bullshit, LinkedIn can be a good tool for finding opportunities if used correctly.
You just need to make sure your privacy settings are bulletproof and don’t give out more information than they need to.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#115Now I know why I was getting messages from these pricks. I tried to login and had no account. Scum.
I confirm Linkedin is a vector for spam, the way they handle and publish your email address: I use a dedicated, unique email address for my account, and systematically start receiving unsollicited emails and spam a few days after. I now have the habit to register a new email address every few months on Linkedin, to track the issue. It's clear and easy to prove that the new email address is used by spammers after a sh…
It’s strange because I’ve used my primary address on LinkedIn for a year; it’s displayed publicly on my profile and I have yet to receive spam.
I only get a handful of legitimate recruiter messages a month but nothing else.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#116Too big to fall.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
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I regularly see YouTube recommendations for the stuff my bf is watching and we don't share a computer and he is not logged in to YouTube.
First time I hear about this. This would be very serious. Are you positive there is no other way, the Youtube recommendation algorithm is notoriously weird.
I can confirm.
I have very specific interests on YouTube (old cars, etc) that wouldn’t normally appear in the clickbait bucket aka homepage.
When I opened YouTube on my friend’s computer connected to my WiFi (absolutely no way she’d get my YouTube cookies, and if anything she should have her own cookies) the front page had some of the stuff that I watch instead of the usual clickbait.
Now I don’t watch anything that could be compromising but I can see this being an issue if someone is watching “sensitive” subjects and anyone can find out by just requesting the homepage from their IP.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
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LinkedIn definitely uses same IP address to suggest connections. My wife as suggested connection really stood up in this way for many reasons (profile recently created, a few connections from the other side of the world and in a totally different industry).
But you probably have your wife in your contacts.
So it would be even worse, they would need to retrieve a phone number in some way and match that. I don't register email contacts anywhere, and I am not using the LinkedIn app. I would say that I have seen similar things at work/work location (consultant). Seeing people with no shared contacts among the first ones in the suggested list. Until then I though it was related to 2nd or 3rd level of linkage.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#119I am 99% sure LinkedIN used my IP address to match with my second floor neighbor, despite their claims that they would never use IP address as a connection data point. I was sharing my wifi for a brief period with my neighbors on the second floor. My neighbor had a new room mate. The guy was from another country. He didn't work in the same industry I do. I didn't have any of his contact information anywhere on any of…
your neighbor's roommate could have searched for and viewed your linkedin profile if he knew your name, prompting a suggestion on your end.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#120> What we also don’t really know here — the DPC doesn’t really address it — is where LinkedIn obtained those 18 million email addresses, and any other related data, in the first place. Well, one such source of email addresses was me. When I joined it more than 10 years ago, I was not as privacy aware as I am today. So, upon joining, I uploaded my address book to connect to people who already had a LinkedIn account. I…
Their app also periodicacally asks you to upload your phone contact list for them. I'm glad Apple have a clear warning message they obviously can't circumvent because the LinkedIn UI makes it really easy to accidentally trigger it in a few places.