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LinkedIn data mining
Monday, July 6th, 2015 08:54 pmThis is in the same vein as a prior post of mine.
Today I was surprised to see Qiao listed in the "People You May Know" section of an email from LinkedIn. He and I have no shared LinkedIn connections between us. There is no connection between us work-wise. We are not connected through Facebook. The only conceivable way for LinkedIn to have connected us, is that we have the same mailing address.
So LinkedIn must be combing through databases of people's physical addresses, to determine possible relationships between people.
Ooh. I just thought of another possibility. They could be matching us up by our IP address, if Qiao ever logs into LinkedIn from home. Though I think our IP address is not static, and we turn off the modem nearly every night, and it's unlikely that we'd access the site at the same time or on the same day.
Today I was surprised to see Qiao listed in the "People You May Know" section of an email from LinkedIn. He and I have no shared LinkedIn connections between us. There is no connection between us work-wise. We are not connected through Facebook. The only conceivable way for LinkedIn to have connected us, is that we have the same mailing address.
So LinkedIn must be combing through databases of people's physical addresses, to determine possible relationships between people.
Ooh. I just thought of another possibility. They could be matching us up by our IP address, if Qiao ever logs into LinkedIn from home. Though I think our IP address is not static, and we turn off the modem nearly every night, and it's unlikely that we'd access the site at the same time or on the same day.