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Inferred salary is from salary estimates based on job titles. It isn’t tied to your personal data IIRC. It’s likely that an API endpoint was found and all the

by nojito 5y ago

Inferred salary is from salary estimates based on job titles. It isn’t tied to your personal data IIRC. It’s likely that an API endpoint was found and all the data was siphoned off.

rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago
> Inferred salary is from salary estimates based on job titles. It isn’t tied to your personal data IIRC. How do you know? https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/4786/source-and-accuracy-of-salary-information-on-linkedin?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/4786/source-an... >When we don’t have member-submitted data, salary insights are inferred using data between similar companies, job titles, location, and other job attributes. With enough "job attributes", you can easily tie things down to an individual: who worked as <position> at <company> in <city> from <start_date> to <end_date>, doing <job_description> with <colleagues>?
- nojito 5y ago
  Because you get salary insights when you look at job postings which means it’s an API endpoint.
nzealand 5y ago
The same API that was used in the April breach. https://restoreprivacy.com/linkedin-data-leak-700-million-users/ https://restoreprivacy.com/linkedin-data-leak-700-million-us... Even if you don't considered inferred salary directly tied to you as "personal data," surely you consider geo location personal data? Also, aren't you even slightly outraged that you can't even download data that has been hacked and released into the wild? Or outraged by the fact that you can only download data you have given directly to a service provider, but that the service provider will happily tell 3rd parties about your shadow profiles?
- nojito 5y ago
  The geolocation in the response looks like the location you set in your LinkedIn profile. Is there anything that shows that it’s your actual geo location when you access LinkedIn?

by nojito 5y ago

Inferred salary is from salary estimates based on job titles. It isn’t tied to your personal data IIRC. It’s likely that an API endpoint was found and all the data was siphoned off.

rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago

> Inferred salary is from salary estimates based on job titles. It isn’t tied to your personal data IIRC. How do you know? https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/4786/source-and-accuracy-of-salary-information-on-linkedin?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/4786/source-an... >When we don’t have member-submitted data, salary insights are inferred using data between similar companies, job titles, location, and other job attributes. With enough "job attributes", you can easily tie things down to an individual: who worked as <position> at <company> in <city> from <start_date> to <end_date>, doing <job_description> with <colleagues>?

nojito 5y ago
Because you get salary insights when you look at job postings which means it’s an API endpoint.

nzealand 5y ago

The same API that was used in the April breach. https://restoreprivacy.com/linkedin-data-leak-700-million-users/ https://restoreprivacy.com/linkedin-data-leak-700-million-us... Even if you don't considered inferred salary directly tied to you as "personal data," surely you consider geo location personal data? Also, aren't you even slightly outraged that you can't even download data that has been hacked and released into the wild? Or outraged by the fact that you can only download data you have given directly to a service provider, but that the service provider will happily tell 3rd parties about your shadow profiles?

nojito 5y ago
The geolocation in the response looks like the location you set in your LinkedIn profile. Is there anything that shows that it’s your actual geo location when you access LinkedIn?