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Here is what the _current_ content says: One of the interesting dichotomies with compensation data is that many users want this information, but don’t wan
by mavelikara 10y ago
Here is what the _current_ content says:
One of the interesting dichotomies with compensation data
is that many users want this information, but don’t want to
have their individual data exposed or connected back to them.
Salary information is personal to each of our members. With
this in mind, and consistent with our Members First organizational
philosophy, one of the first goals we established when we set out
to embark on this project was to provide powerful salary insights
in aggregate without risking an individual’s private information.
In the end, we built a salary collection system to provide the
strongest protections for the anonymity of all of our members—no
easy task. Parts of our approach are detailed later in this article.
Because we proactively separate a member’s submission data from their
Member ID when compensation data is submitted, it enables us to
secure the system in such a way that we cannot even support the
ability for a member to update their previously submitted salary
information - they have to resubmit. Furthermore, our system provides
protection not just from hackers out in the wild, but also provides
access control against unauthorized use by internal users.
If I am reading this correctly, what they seem to say is that as implemented currently, they don't have the ability to track a person's salary information to their profile and hence won't be able to sell that information.
- Balgair 10y agoTrue, but that is not the issue. The clickwrap means nothing to me when they have this rider: "7. Right to Terminate or Modify Software LinkedIn may modify the Software and this EULA with notice to you either in email or by publishing notice on the Website, including but not limited to charging fees for the Software, or changing the functionality or appearance of the Software. In the event LinkedIn modifies the Software or the EULA, you may terminate this EULA and cease use of the Software. LinkedIn may terminate your use of the Software, the EULA or the LinkedIn Service at any time, *with or without notice.*" (emphasis mine)[0] Fundamentally, I cannot ever trust them. [0]https://www.linkedin.com/legal/mobile/eula https://www.linkedin.com/legal/mobile/eula
- badloginagain 10y agoUntil 7 months later they quietly update the ToS.
- riffraff 10y ago7 months later they would still not have access to the submitted data that was never stored, only to future submissions.
- saiya-jin 10y agothat's a mighty big hoping that nothing in this regard will change. ever. in for-profit company. that eagerly steals all my contacts from my cell phone (to which I probably unknowingly agreed, but it's amoral). NO.
- sgw928 10y agoThen when someone resubmits new data, how do they know that a previously submitted data point is now stale and shouldn't be used any more?
- mahyarm 10y agoWhat I think happens: 1. You submit a salary info struct, which includes time of submission. The struct does not contain a userId. 2. Your account's lastUpdatedSalaryDate gets updated, with only day/week/month level precision. Someone with access to the entire database may be able to connect the two if the salary set for your job is small enough. Then they weigh salary information based on how fresh the entry is. Stale entries don't get a good weight, and you updating your salary is just another info point, and it might go into another bucket if you got a title change (ex software eng -> sr. software eng.). If you got promoted, then the old salary info is probably still relevant for people in lower level positions.
- hvidgaard 10y agoWhen you submit data, your current state and history will form some basis for the entry into the salery database. When you update your information, you have a different state and history, and thus will generate a new entry. Both should be in the data.
- billmalarky 10y agoBecause we proactively separate a member’s submission data from their Member ID when compensation data is submitted, it enables us to secure the system in such a way that we cannot even support the ability for a member to update their previously submitted salary information - they have to resubmit. How is this possible? If the salary data is not associated to the user in any way can't a user submit their salary over and over again drastically swaying the aggregate salaries?
- apike 10y agoPresumably they're tracking when the user last submitted a salary, but not what they submitted.