Re:Launch HN: Weekday (YC W21) – Hire engineers vouched for ...
by gregdoesit on Friday July 16, 2021 @04:07AM
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The business model of Weekday will have issues with opt-in and compliance on markets like the EU where their approach will breach GDPR by storing personal data for people who have not opted into this.
I have received an email from Weekday to my personal email address that I do not share anywhere in public.
When I asked the team where they have bought/obtained my data, I was told:
“We do not buy data at all. We get information about our candidates from individuals using our chrome extension and recommending candidates to us via LinkedIn. Therefore, your information has come through a LinkedIn recommendation.”
While the approach is creative growth hacking, storing my data (name, email and who knows what else) by using a Chrome extension to harvest data I thought would be private does not seem ethical. It’s not something I am happy about either, and it’s definitely something that is not GDPR compliant.
I have received an email from Weekday to my personal email address that I do not share anywhere in public.
When I asked the team where they have bought/obtained my data, I was told:
“We do not buy data at all. We get information about our candidates from individuals using our chrome extension and recommending candidates to us via LinkedIn. Therefore, your information has come through a LinkedIn recommendation.”
While the approach is creative growth hacking, storing my data (name, email and who knows what else) by using a Chrome extension to harvest data I thought would be private does not seem ethical. It’s not something I am happy about either, and it’s definitely something that is not GDPR compliant.