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PSA: LinkedIn just leaked my birthday (and it could leak yours)

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Even though I set the visibility of my birthday to “Only you”, people were messaged on my birthday that it occurred.

Keep in mind that even though LinkedIn states that other people are not messaged when you set this to a private setting, they still are.

Obviously another capitalist industrial shenanigan from one of our favourite data krakens, Microsoft.

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if you live in a GDPR country, consider filing a complaint with your local data protection authority

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ugh, that’s tedious. Can’t I just hit up my Landesdatenschutzbeauftragter on Mastodon?

nvm, they have an online form. “Ihre Beschwerde wurde versandt.” (your complaint has been registered)

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