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The business model of Weekday will have issues with opt-in and compliance on markets like the EU where their approach will breach GDPR by storing personal data
by gregdoesit 5y ago
The business model of Weekday will have issues with opt-in and compliance on markets like the EU where their approach will breach GDPR by storing personal data for people who have not opted into this.
I have received an email from Weekday to my personal email address that I do not share anywhere in public.
When I asked the team where they have bought/obtained my data, I was told:
“We do not buy data at all. We get information about our candidates from individuals using our chrome extension and recommending candidates to us via LinkedIn. Therefore, your information has come through a LinkedIn recommendation.”
While the approach is creative growth hacking, storing my data (name, email and who knows what else) by using a Chrome extension to harvest data I thought would be private does not seem ethical. It’s not something I am happy about either, and it’s definitely something that is not GDPR compliant.