On 2/7/24 12:47, George at Clug wrote:
Scott McNally’s quip that ‘you have no privacy, get over it’ is sadly true, but I don't think he meant that we have to resign ourselves to this fast, we can but do what we can to reduce the data collected, even while realising our efforts are mostly in vain.
Linedkin is worse than any organisation I know of. I signed up very reluctantly with a fake profile and a throw-awy email address and the first thing it suggested was to link to immediate family and people it had no way of knowing I was related to.
I can only guess they have profiled my browser signature and worked off that.
If you are or ever have been a user of Linkedin your privacy is worse than zero. You are a product that can be bought and sold and almost everything you see and hear will be managed by them or their customers.
I class that entirely differently to application telemetry with an option to opt out.
Back on my original post I use Visual Studio Code because it is a very useful tool and has a broad community of people in the open source community. I rate VS Code significantly less intrusive than github which, with no option to opt out, scans all your private repositories to gain information about you that it can package and resell 'anonymously'. Even if you aren't a user of github, your access to download is recorded and included in the data it resells.
