Karl Voit  1d ago

#LinkedIn is sharing your personal details as well as photographs with lots of other data hoarders.

#privacy

Had an account and deleted it in the past
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Have an account but will delete it soon
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Show threadKantikainen

@publicvoit wait...a dunb question. Isin't linkdin facebook for business where you WANT to share everything? Like your personal ad page where you enter only that info that you want to be shared anyway? Why would you even have anything "personal" in that kind of service?

I don't use it so thats why i am asking.

Apr 1 at 9:13pmWeb
Show threadjonathankoren™1d ago
@Kantikainen @publicvoit yes. Yes it is. This complaint absolutely misses the entire point
Show threadKantikainen1d ago
@jonathankoren @publicvoit oh yes, i am not complaining, i am genuinly asking. I always thought linkdin as a "share your self" kind of platform. Are people using it for more private sense?
Show threadjonathankoren™1d ago
@Kantikainen @publicvoit I knew *you* were asking. But the idea that a social media platform with the expressed purpose of sharing information with strangers is somehow a sneaky antiprivacy /doxing site is… Well I don’t know. “Laughable” is too gentle of a term.
Show threadKarl Voit  1d ago

@jonathankoren @Kantikainen Well, I'm unsure how I see that.

On the one hand side, it's for sharing information, yes.

On the other hand side, I personally had no gain from it and they clearly extend the purpose of data collection and sharing way beyond the original purpose of the site which also might violate GDPR which protects our data.

Therefore I wanted to check decisions of others here.

Show threadjonathankoren™1d ago

@publicvoit @Kantikainen wait. “I personally had no gain from it” and “I wanted to check the decisions of others”?

Well now we’ve gotten to the crux of the matter haven’t we? It wasn’t for me, so therefore it shouldn’t be for you either.

Mix in some “might violate” (How would you know, given that you just admitted that you don’t use the site? You couldn’t even make a more substantial claim, it’s literally the vaguest weakest allegation. It’s just FUD.

As someone that takes yearly GRPR training, it really isn’t that big of deal. You toss up an “I agree” button, and that’s pretty much it. You get a click, do whatever you said it in the dialog. If your vague wording wasn’t vague enough, write another vague sentence and send another dialog. Only the incompetent violate it.

Show threadKarl Voit  1d ago

@jonathankoren @Kantikainen The basis was https://www.golem.de/news/linkedin-persona-in-drei-minuten-in-den-datenschutz-wahnsinn-2603-206707-2.html (German)

I do consider using that service as I have an up to date profile.

I disagree on your GDPR statement. This might be the point of view of a normal user but not of a privacy aware person or a lawyer.

Edit: https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/ a more detailed analysis.

Linkedin & Persona: In drei Minuten in den Datenschutz-Wahnsinn - Golem.de

Ich habe meine Identität auf Linkedin verifiziert. Hier erzähle ich, was ich preisgegeben habe, nur um ein blaues Häkchen zu bekommen.

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