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People data labs's data is pretty accurate. Here is mine: https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v4/person?api_key=9c6a13822048c34091683bc4ed9a6528d41e2529532cb6c20cc73
by anilshanbhag 7y ago
People data labs's data is pretty accurate. Here is mine:
https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v4/person?api_key=9c6a13822048c34091683bc4ed9a6528d41e2529532cb6c20cc73287f731ef17&email=anilashanbhag@gmail.com&pretty=true https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v4/person?api_key=9c6a1382204...
You can try it for yourself by changing the email. All of the information is public, so I don't mind. They are basically doing data integration.
- alanbernstein 7y agoThat API key is now public, too! Rate limited.
- big_chungus 7y agoYeah no kidding. Though if you wait until it flips to a new minute and refresh, that helps. Though it takes all of a minute to register a free key, so probably no big deal.
- netsharc 7y agoAh, looks like everyone's using that API key, I got 2 queries for my addresses and got a "rate limit exceeded" message. Strangely it only says I work in real estate (no I don't) when I looked up the email address I use for LinkedIn...
- SirYandi 7y agoYou, and others can use my api key, just signed up. e75ac28b25480e60071b24d819d4692a0b315c037046b9ff6ec9dfb1e99a895c
- ethagnawl 7y agoTry changing v4 to v3 in the URL.
- lioeters 7y agoYup, that worked for me. Indeed they do have a profile on me - a bare minimum, scaped from GitHub. That makes sense, since that's about the only social platform I use, aside from HN. EDIT: My GMail address has the most amount of information gathered, which makes sense. It's gathered Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, GitHub.. It lists my skills as: firefighting and emergency planning/management/services. I suppose, with a stretch of imagination..
- afturner 7y agoHere's mine eaca37c25ca1a9c5d85efb8cbaf1742b4fbfeee0054d713961176ab9500c2f2b
- lm28469 7y agoI'm glad they don't have jack shit on me besides my email, is there a list of their data source(s) ?
- BoorishBears 7y agoHaha, when I was a kid and scared to use my real name for things, for some reason I used my email... which had my real name in it, to open a Github account with a fake name So the api knows me as the famous architect, Art Vandelay
- EGreg 7y agoThere is a way to get every developer’s email on github thanks to git commits adding it :))
- blotter_paper 7y agoIn your github account you can add a new email address that doesn't even exist or have a valid TLD, like "name@mail.fake". Don't use it as your primary email and it won't require confirmation. You can now set your git user.email to this fake address and any commits you make will be attributed to your account without exposing your actual email address.
- brobinson 7y agoYou can use yourgithubusername@users.noreply.github.com instead of adding a fake email, and your commits will still show up on your contribution graph and be linked to your username.
- guenthert 7y agoThat must have been a long time ago, Boorish Bears.
- soylentcola 7y agoReminds me of when I used to get free magazine subscriptions (and the subsequent junk mail/robocalls) addressed to Santos L. Halper.
- troebr 7y agoIt would be really surprised if this were compliant with the GDPR. I live in the US but I tried email accounts of relatives in Europe and they had data in there.
- ThrustVectoring 7y agoIt looks like it's a US-based company without enough of a European presence to fall under their jurisdiction.
- troebr 7y agohttps://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/ https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/ it looks like it would? I'm no expert though.
- cortesoft 7y agoRight, they can say it applies... but if a company does no business in Europe, how can a judgement be enforced?
- gbear605 7y agoI’m also not an expert, but my understanding is that it applies but would be hard for the EU to take action against them
- pc86 7y agoA law isn't a law if you can't enforce it, so "applies" has kind of a strange meaning in this context then, doesn't it?
- wccrawford 7y agoA law always has a jurisdiction. EU laws generally don't apply to the US, even if the EU wants them to. There are exceptions, of course.
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- 0xTJ 7y agoI'm actually a bit surprised at how little data they have on me. They've associated my main email with an old junk email, they've got my first and last name, and know that I'm male, but there's little more.
- soared 7y agoThis seems exceptionally unethical
- pc86 7y agoDisplaying public information publicly, or sharing your API key?
- asdfman123 7y agoWait, so is this mostly just Linkedin data in JSON form?
- Izkata 7y agoMy personal email seems to be based on Github and Gravatar, while my job search and work emails got linked together and appear to be based on LinkedIn.
- cmdshiftf4 7y agoIt returned a 404 for my personal email account, so that appears to be sufficiently protected. More surprisingly it had data such as my name, title and work email address which was connected to old work email account (Okta managed - GSuite) that I never associated with external services, and absolutely never used on a social networking site like LinkedIn.
- rohan1024 7y agoYour api key is now permanently in public. After few days, people will still be able to use this for their own usage.
- briffle 7y agoa few days? its already hit its limit :)
- yyyk 7y agoNothing for most of my accounts, except one which somehow was falsely attributed to someone else. Odd given I do have a LinkedIn profile; Their scraping must be far from perfect.
- btbuildem 7y agoWow.. I checked with an email address I use for disposable purposes. The only thing they had on it was a blank LinkedIn profile -- meaning that LinkedIn cancer has trawled some pretty questionable sites, harvesting email addresses as placeholders for their accounts. WTF.
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- tmpaccc 7y agoI don't know how accurate the coordinates of your address in India are, but it's 5 minutes away from me. Small world, huh?