Re:The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
by meritt on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:20PM
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When you explicitly chose to broadcast that information to the public via LinkedIn who explicitly makes that information available to the general public and does not require you to log in (in contrast to say Facebook)
> highly unethical
How is a company leveraging intentionally public data unethical? That's quite a stretch. Stop making your information public if you don't want people or companies to look at it. It's as simple as that.
If you want to talk about unethical practices, let's talk about financial companies selling your transaction data to advertisers and insurance agencies, or social networking platforms re-purposing the content of your direct messages, or ISPs selling your browsing history. Those are actual things which have a reasonable expectation of privacy. These are actual instances of problematic PII abuse and what laws like GDPR are intending to curb.
> highly unethical
How is a company leveraging intentionally public data unethical? That's quite a stretch. Stop making your information public if you don't want people or companies to look at it. It's as simple as that.
If you want to talk about unethical practices, let's talk about financial companies selling your transaction data to advertisers and insurance agencies, or social networking platforms re-purposing the content of your direct messages, or ISPs selling your browsing history. Those are actual things which have a reasonable expectation of privacy. These are actual instances of problematic PII abuse and what laws like GDPR are intending to curb.