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It's a public page. Your employer could just as well check your page theirself. It may be a tragedy of efficiency, but it's not like the scraper is grabbing hid
by xboxnolifes 5y ago
It's a public page. Your employer could just as well check your page theirself. It may be a tragedy of efficiency, but it's not like the scraper is grabbing hidden data. The issue is in something else. Maybe it's the fact that your current employer would punish you for looking for a new job. Or maybe LinkedIn's public "looking for job" status is not sustainable in it's current form.
- notch656a 5y agoWeev was charged, and eventually convicted based merely on scraping from AT&T [0]. When the charge was vacated, it was only on venue/jurisdiction, not on the basis of the scraping being legal. Seems there's precedent merely scraping this information is felonious behavior. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/weevs-case-flawed-beginning-end https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/weevs-case-flawed-begi...
- jakelazaroff 5y agoYes, and if I have a public Twitter account it’s perfectly possible for someone to flood me with spam messages. That doesn’t mean we should do nothing to prevent it. As I said elsewhere, we should strive to make it possible for people to exist in public digital spaces without worrying about bad actors.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoSomeone can manually spam you, and I don't think that should be allowed. That is a separate topic and discussion. Unless you are arguing that your employer should not be allowed to check your LinkedIn status.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoI’m just using it as an example of a case in which a public profile doesn’t automatically mean anything goes. I had hoped to generate discussion about how to throw out some of the bathwater without throwing out the baby too, but I guess no one is really interested.