Re:The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
by jongisli on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:15AM
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And what is the reason people want their own information to be publicly accessible you think?
My public information on LinkedIn is public - to market myself. I didn't make it public so that another company could store it in their own databases, analyse it and sell it to "my boss".
This is a discussion touched upon in the article "What were the public squares and private rooms of the web? Who got to determine access? Should data be protected as speech?"
Anyway, as mentioned in another comment, the highly unethical work HiQ is doing will be hard to capitalize on with the GDPR coming up.
My public information on LinkedIn is public - to market myself. I didn't make it public so that another company could store it in their own databases, analyse it and sell it to "my boss".
This is a discussion touched upon in the article "What were the public squares and private rooms of the web? Who got to determine access? Should data be protected as speech?"
Anyway, as mentioned in another comment, the highly unethical work HiQ is doing will be hard to capitalize on with the GDPR coming up.