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by throwup238 505 days ago
> Second, a lot of HR people want to have a pool of people to contact when a position opens.

I wonder, is that even legal in California given the CCPA? If they're not actually actively hiring, what "business purpose" do they have for retaining that data?

I feel like anyone in California who gets a call back from HR thanks to this data mining should report the privacy violation.