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It's not quite like that. The first company cannot prevent scraping by individuals or another company of information that it already shows to everyone. Which, t
by ptero 7y ago
It's not quite like that. The first company cannot prevent scraping by individuals or another company of information that it already shows to everyone. Which, to me, is a good thing. My 2c.
- gkoberger 7y agoEh. I want my picture and name uploaded to LinkedIn, since it's a professional network and people use it to find me for good reasons. It may seem dumb, however not having a LinkedIn with a good picture can genuinely hurt your career. I do NOT want my picture run through facial recognition software, or my name/email sold to marketers who will add it to a drip campaign.
- rch 7y agoExactly. I don't like or "enjoy" LinkedIn but I do find it useful professionally. Now it sounds like this ruling implies that by creating a profile on one platform, I have to accept that every company that comes along can include me in their corpus. Maybe I should be able to set a pass-through GDPR flag on my profile such that third parties (subject to that regulation) will have to exclude me from their datasets.
- Nextgrid 7y agoThen don't make the data public. You can't have the cake and eat it too. Scraping is irrelevant here - a human can just as well take your picture from your LinkedIn page and include it in their face-recognition DB.
- Dayshine 7y agoNo they can't, not legally.
- wpietri 7y agoHow's that? Obviously they can't keep the photo. But I don't see what would stop them from "viewing" the publicly available photo and saving markers that let them recognize the face again. After all, that's what any person does when they look at a photo.
- tekknik 7y agoThe huge difference is having a human do it at scale is cost prohibitive.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoPIIs and biometrics are special. So if I upload my photo to LinkedIn, I want it to be available when viewing my LinkedIn profile, but I expect that any other entity that scraps it off LinkedIn can't process it without my explicit consent (thanks to GDPR). Similarly with other data that's about me, a person. But all other data, I'd argue, should be fair play. If an e-commerce sites publishes a list of products and prices, I believe it's desirable for other parties to be able to scrap it and process it, e.g. for offering a price comparison service.
- dx034 7y agoSo Google would need to allow scraping of search results? That would be a huge change, they currently prevent that pretty aggressively.