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Linkedin is worse than Facebook in terms of privacy. So many dark patterns on their site - someday their reckoning will come just as facebooks. Easier target to
by taurath 9y ago
Linkedin is worse than Facebook in terms of privacy. So many dark patterns on their site - someday their reckoning will come just as facebooks. Easier target too since it could hurt people’s jobs and careers.
- bhnmmhmd 9y agoWhen Microsoft acquired LinkedIn I suspected they will go for the top talent with this. Think about it: Based on users' data and behavior, one can anticipate whether or not he/she is going to quit/leave his/her current job. Microsoft recruiters can then swoop in and offer him/her a job. Or for example, Microsoft can essentially map all the top IT talents network and use this to its advantage. The list goes on...
- taurath 9y agoI had forgot the MS acquired it! Honestly it’s probably less bad than it was. Maybe in a few years we’ll hear about all the scrubbing they had to do to keep MS safe.
- phy6 9y agoWe joke at the office about going to update our linkedin after terrible meetings. In fact the act of interacting with that site at all, either from updates or clicking emails, is probably a sign I'm looking for greener pastures.
- l9k 9y agoI'm not sure it would be really helpful. Not all jobs (on LinkedIn) are IT jobs, far from that. The real advantage would be to map everyone and every company to get intelligence on the users and potential users of their products (Office 365)
- fredliu 9y agoDefinitely the things Linkedin do are so much worse and creepier, just by looking at the people they recommend me to connect to, the level of offline tracking they must be doing are creepy beyond imagination.
- organsnyder 9y agoFacebook at times appears to be doing something similar. After spending a day in a conference room with a colleague that normally works from a different location, all of a sudden he was at the top of my "suggested friends" list.
- phy6 9y agoWe used the same temporal colocation analysis to find ships smuggling things at sea. ;)
- greggarious 9y agoWho is "we?" :)
- phy6 9y agoIt was one of many DARPA projects to see what can be done with the table scraps of open/unclassified data available. The ship beaconing data was in that category. As was uber sample data, backpage data, darkweb ecommerce, blockchain ledgers. We looked at ALL kinds of data, and tried fusing where we could. One target was human trafficking. https://www.google.com/search?q=memex+human+trafficking https://www.google.com/search?q=memex+human+trafficking
- bshimmin 9y agoI had a great one like this with LinkedIn recently - a client called me to discuss something and mentioned a third-party; I hadn't heard of them so asked if the client could send me some information; he sent me an email later that day with a link to the other company's web site, which I duly clicked and browsed around. The very next day, in my LinkedIn "People you may know" in the top row was a lead developer at that very same (tiny, otherwise totally unconnected to me) company.
- phy6 9y agoMy old boss loved to play big brother on us with LinkedIn. She'd get notified when we were updating our stuff, and I think she could see when we were messaging with recruiters/etc. I'm not entirely sure what the limits were with her upgraded account, but she wasn't good at hiding that she knew when her employees were looking for new jobs.
- raquo 9y agoI used to always update my LinkedIn a few weeks before performance evaluation meetings. Was hoping the HR would notice and recognize retention risk. They were still surprised when I eventually quit, ha.
- jacquesm 9y agoInteresting how someone like that most likely was the biggest cause of people looking for jobs in the first place. I know I would.
- greggarious 9y ago>Linkedin is worse than Facebook in terms of privacy. And that sucks since it's hard to have a professional life w/o one. I've known women who were stalked/harassed because despite otherwise being pretty locked down their harassers found their linkedin and used that to harangue them.
- paulie_a 9y agoIt's honestly not that difficult. I dropped my account, it served no value. Getting regular messages "to pick my brain" is a waste
- FilterSweep 9y agoFacebook's reckoning never came, judging by the laughable "grand inquisition" that happened this past week.
- paulie_a 9y agoI couldn't delete multiple connections at a time. So I deleted my LinkedIn account instead. LinkedIn really serves no purpose if you are not in HR.