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So what's a non creepy use for this?
by pluc 2y ago
So what's a non creepy use for this?
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoI think the "non creepy" use is really just making people aware how easy it is to correlate all your different traces online. It's like when someone released on HN a tool that would link various HN accounts (and maybe Reddit accounts too IIRC), but by looking at commenter word choice similarity. It makes people realize that actual anonymity online is a smokescreen.
- deadbabe 2y agoFinding usernames that you can register and own across all social networks.
- anticorporate 2y ago*For some very narrow, twisted definitions of the word "own"
- hooverd 2y agoThat's the great part- there isn't. Following people you like on every platform I guess.
- diogonr95 2y agoIt’s also a great education tool to showcase the need to be careful about internet hygiene. The creeps have done this sort of things for decades
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- lupusreal 2y agoLike hiring a PI to follow people around to educate people about about stalkers.
- jedberg 2y agoSeeing what it finds about yourself?
- mrkramer 2y agoCybercrime research; locate malicious actors across social web.
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- some_random 2y agoRealistically it's doing this to people who deserve it, trouble is that no one is going to agree on that criteria
- s1artibartfast 2y agoWho deserves it, and what is "it"?
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoTo socially harass and drive to suicide anyone that doesn't conform to the dominate cultural outlook. Think that's creepy? Well, you just made the list!
- yieldcrv 2y agoI’m on a lot of lists and still have TSA Precheck, Global Entry, can hold US security clearances, pass professional background checks so what are you lesser relevant people worried about exactly?
- noman-land 2y agoWhat lists are you on?
- Tepix 2y agoIs it creepy if you google a job candidate?
- naavis 2y agoIn many parts of the world it is illegal for a recruiting party to search for information on a candidate without their consent.
- Tepix 2y agoWhat are laws that prohibit it?
- naavis 2y agoOne example is Finnish legislation: https://finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2004/20040759#L2P4 https://finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2004/20040759#L2P4 Sadly only available in Finnish. The law applies both to employees and candidates. EDIT: Looks like there is an English translation. See section 4 of: https://finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2004/en20040759_20190347.pdf https://finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2004/en20040759_2019034...
- JSteph22 2y agoWhichever parts of the world that may be, you can guarantee that it happens anyways. Unenforceable rules are never followed.
- steelframe 2y agoI recently Googled myself, and in the first page of results I ran across some shit AI website that scrapes random web content about people and attempts to summarize it. It got my current occupation completely and comically wrong -- as in, it has nothing at all to do with tech. If you're trying to figure out anything about me from social media or other such random web pages, I don't care to have anything to do with you, and I don't care what you're led to believe about me. I suppose this is born of privilege, but the only contacts I care to make are directly via people I already have a relationship with.
- EGreg 2y agoLetting a person sign up on your site and choose to import stuff they've put onto other sites under that username, maybe.
- fragmede 2y agoClean up the online footprint for someone that hires you to do so before they run for office. I don't remember every single web site I've every signed up for going back to when I started using the Internet, and neither can you.
- pluc 2y agoInternet Archive likely renders that point moot, no? There a plenty of sites that index tweets outside of Twitter for example... at least there used to be
- jdiff 2y agoThe Archive is much less discoverable. There's no search engine for the wayback machine.
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- sureglymop 2y agoYou can request them to take down personally identifying information about yourself. They respond quickly and seem to have someone employed to handle GDPR requests.