Re: Linkedin has already sold, er "lost" user data
The larger question is why is your nation selling or worst yet giving your data away to the world?
My country did not sign me up to linkedin, it was my choice. If an individual doesn't sign up for any service where data is transferred outside the EU, how is their country giving away data?
Though that gives me an idea. There are >400 million people in the EU. How about generating a random database of 40 million records with plausible sounding names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mails and implausible national id numbers and then selling it for 1 cent per name? It would generate a nice profit and be completely useless and innocuous at the same time.
Countries could actually do that -- generate fake data and sell it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
