This is why I deleted my profile data. I realize there’s no reason anyone should be sharing their entire career history and life story with this private company without proper compensation.
I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn.
Every time you log in, we search your computer.
Not metaphorically.
We run code that scans your installed software.
Every browser extension.
Every application.
We catalog it.
We transmit it to our servers.
We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of.
The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide.
We hid it off-screen.
You never consented.
We never asked.
Our privacy policy doesn't mention it.
That's networking.
We call the program Project Handshake internally.
The Slack channel is handshake-telem.
In 2024 we scanned for 461 products.
By February this year we scan for over 6,000.
I don't know what all of them are.
Nobody does.
Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims.
Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users.
Someone added 509 job search tools.
That last one is my favorite.
We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs.
On the platform where their current boss checks their profile.
That's networking.
We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools.
Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo.
We know each user's real name, employer, and job title.
We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products.
We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers.
Without anyone knowing.
Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught.
The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools.
We published two restricted APIs.
They handle 0.07 calls per second.
Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second.
In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times.
That's networking.
I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter.
The conference room is called The Fishbowl.
Glass walls.
Appropriate.
There's a plaque on the wall.
Q3 Competitive Landscape Award.
I won it for the extension scanning initiative.
Someone asked if users had a way to opt out.
I said they can close their browser.
The room laughed.
I wasn't sure why.
I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions.
Most of the team does.
The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit.
We know your name.
We know your employer.
We know your religion.
Your disabilities.
Your politics.
Whether you're looking to leave.
That's networking.
The system works exactly as designed.
I designed it.
@martinvars this reminds me of the SETI screensaver project of the late 90s. You could download their screensaver, which would use your idle computer to process a radio telescope data.
I ran that thing for a couple years!
This SNL skit is PERFECTION 🤗https://t.co/gzAbdjcSWm
It shows who @realDonaldTrump and friends ARE: null & void. Empty!
It’s a simple algorithm: Whatever bad thing #POTUS says his enemy is doing, it’s because he HAS already done it, IS doing it or is planning to asap.
@ChrisWickNews This says it all… https://t.co/gzAbdjcSWm
This is just who Trump and friends ARE, whatever bad thing they say their enemies are doing, it’s THEM doing it. Pre-emption is a simplistic propaganda technique but it’s worked so well for them!
@AnthropicAI Just so you know, you have massively increased my loyalty as a customer and that of my engineering team by refusing to agree to this ‘Dept of War’ deal.
I had already been advising users of other LLM services to migrate but this makes it more satisfying and actually urgent!
Kristi Noem secretly issued subpoenas not signed by a judge to major tech companies such as Google, Meta, Reddit and Discord seeking personal details of names, email addresses and phone numbers of those that are critical of or are tracking ICE. 😡
READ: https://t.co/i9GtA1Obfo
@RonWyden Please do NOT let up on this @RonWyden you are on the right side of so many issues from bitcoin, to civil rights, to digital privacy. Join with @RepThomasMassie in a multilateral push to get justice for Epstein victims and find out how far the corruption goes. OR is behind you!
There's got to be a lot more accountability for a lot more people in Epstein's world. That's why I'm not letting up on my follow the money investigation.
Glad you asked. Scott Bessent is hiding them at the Treasury Department. He's refused for an entire year to turn them over, so I'm leading the charge to force him to do it:
Jeffery Epstein’s butler was caught in an FBI sting in 2009 trying to sell the client & victim list.
He told them the entire operation, 17 years ago.
And the FBI did NOTHING.
The pedophile führer's ICE Nazis just bought a warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia to turn into a Trump concentration camp. Not only did they pay an exorbitant price, but you're not going to believe who they bought it from. 😳👇
@allenanalysis Unfortunately he’s acting like ICE actually does, he learned from our own home grown modern day brown shirts. Not surprised it’s in San Diego tbh, the place is a cesspool, even worse than Orange County!