alt Hacker NewsAre you kidding? They've probably been selling a datastream of who in the company has been job searching to company HR departments the whole time. Search for a job on LinkedIn and I bet anybody with a paid corporate account can find that out if they care to.
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Ikatza • yesterday at 3:29 PM
If they have been doing that, they haven't offered it to me, which seems weird since I'm their ICP.
The simpler explanation is that they aren't doing that.
whimsicalism • yesterday at 4:34 PM
why is everyone online so incorrectly conspiratorial-minded nowadays? and no, there are not just way more conspiracies nowadays
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LinkedIn actually sued HiQ Labs, which scraped LinkedIn to do exactly this (and this extensions scanning is likely a defense mechanism against similar attacks):
https://epic.org/documents/linkedin-corp-v-hiq-labs-inc/
> HiQ has created two specific data products targeted at employers: (1) “Keeper,” which informs employers which of their employees are at “risk” of being recruited by competitors; and...
My hunch is that HiQ simply looked for spikes in activity on LinkedIn as a signal for a job hunt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566893
In any case, this lawsuit was discussed a few times on HN at the time, and IIRC there were a fair bit of support for allowing free scraping of "public information." Interesting how the sentiment here has turned these days...