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And for bad actors to datamine unfettered.

If we had stronger privacy laws, they'd rightfully castrate Linkedin's clearinghouse of our personal data to scammers.



Hey, what is visible to humans, visible for everyone. Every information you made public is public. Where's privacy in this?


Let's not draw attention to Microsoft packaging it up in a pretty subscription for dataminers to download.

People will put stuff on professional networks forever, but only once you subscribe can you get that stuff real fast over API, can you really start leveraging these people's data at-scale.

All they need is a linkedin account, rocketreach account, and they have literally everything they need to spearphish your entire executive team at their personal cell phones.


Can I have the subscription? LinkedIn is famously restrictive in their APIs. I can't even download all emails of my own contacts.




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