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Deadlines help a lot. Has it elapsed, and what was the followup?
yes it elapsed and the "profile" is still up. my only choice now is to complain to my "data protection commissioner" but considering GDPR has no teeth I'm not confident it will impress anyone.
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Do you have any examples of that kind of behaviour by LinkedIn?
Well there was the well publicised man-in-the-middle attack by Linkedin. They repurposed user login details to silently rerouted all the user’s email through their servers for scanning and mining. That seems like a pretty dark pattern to me. To my knowledge no one got fired for unethical behaviour over that. The company seems to have a “don’t get caught” attitude to privacy.
Regardless of their intentions, I don't understand how anyone could have thought that was a good idea.
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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…
Yep, same shit. Just checked my email, the last one in question was 'Apollo'. The form in question makes you attest you are a resident of California, which began the back and forth. APOLLO Dear Alex, On behalf of Apollo, we are pleased to assist you in exercising your access rights under GDPR and/or CCPA. You may exercise your access rights as follows. If you wish to remove the personal information that we have that…
So 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...
For those of you who do want to remove all of the info yourself, I've found this is also a good resource: https://inteltechniques.com/data/workbook.pdf
I highly recommend OneRep ( https://onerep.com/ ) as a service to remove you from these websites. I've been using it myself for a while and it has saved me a lot of headache. For those of you who do want to remove all of the info yourself, I've found this is also a good resource: https://inteltechniques.com/data/workbook.pdf
If 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…
Don't trust Microsoft.
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Do you have any examples of that kind of behaviour by LinkedIn?
Well there was the well publicised man-in-the-middle attack by Linkedin. They repurposed user login details to silently rerouted all the user’s email through their servers for scanning and mining. That seems like a pretty dark pattern to me. To my knowledge no one got fired for unethical behaviour over that. The company seems to have a “don’t get caught” attitude to privacy.
>They repurposed user login details to silently rerouted all the user’s email through their servers for scanning and mining.
Isn't that technically not mitm? That would imply the user was using linkedin as a mail client/proxy or something. This is closer to fraud or phishing.