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I take issue with it, but I haven’t seen any other comment clearly state what I see the issue to be. The issue is the poster spun up the instance in the course

by mint2 6y ago

I take issue with it, but I haven’t seen any other comment clearly state what I see the issue to be. The issue is the poster spun up the instance in the course of his job. Microsoft and canonical would be reasonable to share that job related info. But instead it appears that either they shared his personal info which would be unethical, or canonical takes the de-identified job info and then matches it with personal info. In most transactions between people acting as representatives of their business, it would be very creepy for one of the businesses to then get personal info on the representative of the other business like their social media accounts or home address, especially if they do it using secret/obfuscated manners rather than explicit asking.

braveyellowtoad 6y ago
Hm in the corporate world, looking up people on LinkedIn is pretty par for the course. As a consultant with a large consulting firm, I meet with lots of different people. Since I have LinkedIn premium I can see who is looking at me. I’d say easily half the people I meet look me up before the meeting, and I do the same. It’s just curiosity and trying to get some background. What would be weird is sending me a message through there before the meeting. If we are speaking using another channel (like work email accounts), stay on that channel. This is what has gone wrong in this case. No worries with sending a connection request after our meeting “nice to meet you today and looking forward to collaborating, cheers” As a side note it’s always funny when we are in the middle of a meeting and a notification pops up that they have looked at my profile. It’s like “hello... pay attention... I’m right here...”