[ChrisMarshallNY]

Personally, this doesn't bother me too much. I use LinkedIn specifically because it is public. I'm an "open kimono" type of person. Not particularly interested in hiding stuff.

However, the general principle of "Data Scraping as a Business Model" bothers me. This is by no means the only company that does it (I suspect that MS does it with their access to LinkedIn).

There are far more egregious instances, and many of them have ways to get users to voluntarily cede information (can you think of a rather obvious example?).

LinkedIn is a sandwich board. It's meant to be a public showcase. If you want private, I suspect there are much more focused (and probably valuable) venues that cater to particular communities.

[alexandercrohde]

> Not particularly interested in hiding stuff.

Well, so the company, HiQ, is basically scraping every time you update your linked in, to tell your employer you might be about to leave.

Now maybe that's cool with you. But it seems super sketchy to me, and one reason I deleted my linkedIn altogether.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

You made the correct decision.

It is not "cool" with me. It just means that it isn't a factor for me. I would not have used LI for a job search in any obvious way.

If I keep a fairly current and active generic profile, then LI is useful, and no one needs to know whether or not I'm looking.