![]() ![]() Search boxes that report what we are searching for to whoever is searching for us and doesn’t know us yet. Books that watch us read them, music that’s listen to us listen to it. So the primary form of collection that should concern us most is media that spy on us while we use them. Probably you already had an account, called a shadow account - when signing up, you merely asked for your password for a limited access login. If that isn't creepy I don't know what is. The only link between me and "people you may know" is that I corresponded with them via an email address not even associated with my LinkedIn account, and none of my friends or contacts is in any way associated with them. Now LinkedIn has kindly provided me with the full name and place of employment of the women I chatted to via "people you may know" (I recognised their photos from the dating site from a few years ago) and vice versa (yikes! a great way to wind up getting stalked). I used email address B to first get to know people before deciding whether to give them more info about me etc. What makes it creepy I used email address B when I tried online dating a few years ago. Net result is "people you may know" including people I had only corresponded with anonymously via email address B with full details of their name and place of work etc. From that LinkedIn combined it with more info from people who gave them their gmail address and password who I'd only ever corresponded with a few times anonymously via my unnamed address (B, which LinkedIn has now linked with my name). LinkedIn then associated my name with email address B. It seems that LinkedIn went through my friends' gmail contacts and one or more of my friends had probably annotated me in their contact list with my actual name. From what I can tell people I had corresponded with using email address B (which incidentally doesn't even have a real name associated with it) had given their password to LinkedIn (probably via 'find people you know' or whatever). It wasn't even people any of my contacts know. I signed up using email address A, and when I signed in I saw suggestions for "people you may know", but it included people I had only every corresponded with via email address B (bear with me here, it gets more interesting.). ![]() Creating a LinkedIn account was by far the creepiest thing I've ever experienced when signing up. ![]()
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