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Is hiQ a competitor to LinkedIn? They scrape people’s profiles so they can snitch to employers about employees whom they think are job hunting. AFAIK, that’s no

Is hiQ a competitor to LinkedIn? They scrape people’s profiles so they can snitch to employers about employees whom they think are job hunting. AFAIK, that’s not a service LinkedIn provides. Moreover, I would like it both ways. Access control would be great, but it sidesteps the underlying issue. I’m fine with my profile being public — in fact, I want it to be — but I don’t want my data to be vacuumed up and weaponized against me. I agree that anti-hacking laws are not appropriate here. But what hiQ is doing is sleazy as heck, and we should absolutely try to throw out as much bathwater as possible without throwing out the baby too.

danuker 5y ago
> I’m fine with my profile being public — in fact, I want it to be — but I don’t want my data to be vacuumed up and weaponized against me. LinkedIn is a authwalled garden only available to those with accounts. "We may or may not have a Jake Lazaroff. Who's asking?". Sounds like you need a personal website.
- jjk166 5y ago
  When most people say they want things to be public, they typically mean "accessible to those who have a legitimate reason to access it, which may include some people I have not explicitly authorized." Also LinkedIn does have public profile settings which allow some or all of your profile to be visible without an account. https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/83/linkedin-public-profile-visibility?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/83/linkedin-pu...
mrwww 5y ago
I believe LinkedIn started providing some services similar to HiQ, which is one of their arguments. How can your profile be public but not vaccumed up? Google vacuums it to index of course. Or perhaps you mean only public on Linkedin? What the Russians or any other bad actor you care to think about already has done with your public profile is probably way way sleazier.

danuker 5y ago

> I’m fine with my profile being public — in fact, I want it to be — but I don’t want my data to be vacuumed up and weaponized against me. LinkedIn is a authwalled garden only available to those with accounts. "We may or may not have a Jake Lazaroff. Who's asking?". Sounds like you need a personal website.

jjk166 5y ago
When most people say they want things to be public, they typically mean "accessible to those who have a legitimate reason to access it, which may include some people I have not explicitly authorized." Also LinkedIn does have public profile settings which allow some or all of your profile to be visible without an account. https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/83/linkedin-public-profile-visibility?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/83/linkedin-pu...

mrwww 5y ago

I believe LinkedIn started providing some services similar to HiQ, which is one of their arguments. How can your profile be public but not vaccumed up? Google vacuums it to index of course. Or perhaps you mean only public on Linkedin? What the Russians or any other bad actor you care to think about already has done with your public profile is probably way way sleazier.