It’s a slippery slope. I mean, I want a new job. But at the same time, I don’t want all that info out there. What says you?
There is info I want to be private and info I want to be public. Everything on my CV is info I want to be public.
I only use Indeed.com so that my info is only siphoned from one place. I feel like they have good listings and they have options to hide some of your info from employers and random observers. Avoid linkedin at all costs, having a profile has gotten me zero benefits and it is an extreme pain deleting your account.
You can also take steps to protect your contact info, specifically your email/phone/address. I only put the city I’m from on my resume and you can use email masks or alts like firefox relay or protonmail plus, or just make a separate email only for work. For phone numbers I use JMP.chat to give me a second number to use solely for work and Indeed.
In the end a lot of your work info is gonna be pseudo-public, because you do need to convince prospective employers of who you are, but you can control the sphere of that information to keep it confined. Imo, having a stable job is worth that trade; you don’t have to do a deep dive into your personality or personal life to get a job. Just enough to be convincing
Privacy shouldn’t drastically affect your life to the point where you cannot pursue a career and establish yourself.
It doesn’t take much. I once put my name, job title and employer on LinkedIn. That was enough for someone to email my payroll officer and convince them to change my paycheck to a different bank account. I had no idea until my pay was missed.
My payroll officer was a dumbfuck, but that’s all it took.
That seems a bit…odd? I feel like there’s more to the story than just that.
i could add more detail, but it just raises further questions.
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The payroll officer was emailed from an aol.com address, not the company email domain.
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The bank account was changed to a branch in another state, several thousand kilometres away.
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My office was physically next to the payroll officer. Despite sitting 2 metres away, I was not contacted in-person at any stage.
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At least two staff members oversaw this.
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They just wrote off the money and paid me for the month again.
This triggered a policy change. Bank account updates had to be confirmed in-person after that.
I’m very sorry that happened to you. But honestly, I don’t see that as an issue with privacy. More like gross incompetence at your workplace and you paid the price of it. Hopefully it didn’t affect your day to day too much.
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That’s how I see it, too.
First make it so you can eat. Then you can deal with any privacy holes you need to fill.
https://blog.nowhere.moe/opsec/internetsegmentation/index.html keep it confined in your “Public use” VM, since you’re using your real world identity
QubesOS makes this very simple, but I would argue that all your web browsing should be done in a disposable VM.
Just share the information that other people need to know and don’t share things they don’t need to know. Most people on LinkedIn have a worksona anyway, they’re not sharing their personal life much
Don’t ad. Apply direct. Separate email, number, name, always.
FWIW (overlooking the privacy issues w/ using Google, yes), you can generally add a + followed by <a string of your choosing> between your <email account name> and the “@gmail.com” to somewhat filter results internally (and maybe even tag the source of your email getting leaked/sold. /my2¢
Do not put unnecessary information in and use privacy nightmare websites/software (like LinkedIn) with maximum sandboxing and protection possible (WM, VPN, probably Tails). If your job requires you to use some app, get a separate device for it (though I still wouldn’t pick such a job).
Yeah tbh if you’re a software engineer there’s barely a way around using LinkedIn, I got almost all my jobs through being contacted by recruiters on LinkedIn. I kinda hate that my info is out there but otoh with every switch you get more money and I guess unless you’re some kind of whistleblower or government dissident you’ll have to live with exposing yourself to an extent or miss out on good opportunities.
