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LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by vrganj »

shimman wrote: post #64
vrganj wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do know that "the bureaucrats" is just a slur for our democratically elected government, right? In other words, the will of the people.

Yeah but the opponents of the people literally believe democracy is bad and want to go back to monarchism in the form of unaccountable CEO kings that decide the will of the people. Sadly this is like half the tech workforce too. People too brainwashed to see how destructive their work is to the world.

I believe it is up to the other half to stand up for decency, for democracy and for the rule of law.

Don't be quiet, don't just let things happen. Use your voice while you still have it!

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by [deleted] »

duxup wrote: post #41

I'm not a fan of how LinkedIn operates ... or the culture there in general. At the same time I wonder what happens when users realize everything they look at is now more visible than ever? People just make fake accounts for browsing? Maybe it should be that way, but there's an interesting dynamic to "what you look at (even if not a full picture) is visible to some people".

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Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by strictnein »

I don't quite get the "GDPR requires you to share with someone the personal details of people who happened to visit a webpage that you setup on a free website" angle here. I don't get how that's your data and not the data of the people who visited the page?

That seems to violate the GDPR more than the current state, no? If I accidentally click on your profile you're entitled to my name and employer and that's your data now? Makes no sense, other than from a "GDPR good, US tech bad!" angle, I guess.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by codethief »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #54

Interesting, does that mean if you use google analytics you can demand the details google has about every user that hits your site?

No, because your site is not a person, so data related to it is not protected under GDPR.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by codethief »

tensegrist wrote: post #70

isn't this also a thing on dating apps

I was going to raise this question here. Then again, the only thing you might get is an identifier of the person that swiped left/right on you. You won't really be able to do much with that, though, unless you reverse-engineer the dating site's API and invoke it directly to access dating profiles. …which apps might be able to prevent by using device attestation / Google SafetyNet etc. (You can't easily extract the auth key required for the API.)

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by miki123211 »

Dating apps do this too; one of the major selling points of Tinder's premium plan is that you can see who swiped right on you.

They're not at as much of a risk though, as it's much more difficult to begin a chat with a Tinder user than it is on Linked In. Knowing the profile ID or whatever won't help you, if you can't open their profile in-app and swipe right on it, you can't begin a conversation.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by lokar »

duxup wrote: post #41

I'm not a fan of how LinkedIn operates ... or the culture there in general. At the same time I wonder what happens when users realize everything they look at is now more visible than ever? People just make fake accounts for browsing? Maybe it should be that way, but there's an interesting dynamic to "what you look at (even if not a full picture) is visible to some people".

Easy, sell people the option to hide their profile viewing

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

codethief wrote: post #74
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #54

Interesting, does that mean if you use google analytics you can demand the details google has about every user that hits your site?

No, because your site is not a person, so data related to it is not protected under GDPR.

what if the site is just a personal blog?

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by camillomiller »

strictnein wrote: post #73

I don't quite get the "GDPR requires you to share with someone the personal details of people who happened to visit a webpage that you setup on a free website" angle here. I don't get how that's your data and not the data of the people who visited the page? That seems to violate the GDPR more than the current state, no? If I accidentally click on your profile you're entitled to my name and employer and that's your da…

I believe that the case here is different. That would be true, say, for your substack page. But in this case, your "profile" is more than just a web page, it contains personal information, which albeit public, is your property according to the law. Therefore any interaction with it falls under article 15. Personally I would find it fantastic if LinkedIn is forced to make this feature available to all users. I can't see it but as a win for consumers and a loss for inducing payment through extraction of interrelational value.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Post by skinfaxi »

john_strinlai wrote: post #50
1234letshaveatw wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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a generic "europe bad" comment doesnt deserve much more than a generic "america bad" comment as a reply

I would hope for better. Threads descending into nationalism are rarely interesting.

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