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		atomicone on July 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website witho... "HiQ scrapes data about thousands of employees from public LinkedIn profiles, then packages the data for sale to employers worried about their employees quitting". cute.

0x4f3759df on July 31, 2017 [–]

I'd always been suspicious of linking up with my current employer/coworkers, now I guess it was a valid concern.

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