Ask HN: Is it common for companies to sell your resume information?
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good point.
tho, i was just thinking about a typical fortune 5000 company -- e.g. a FAANG, etc.
they have their big, elaborate HR ATS systems - like iCIMS - presumably the data they collect are for any number of things - but is the info sold, to a data broker or advertisers or marketers or etc.?
tho, i was just thinking about a typical fortune 5000 company -- e.g. a FAANG, etc.
they have their big, elaborate HR ATS systems - like iCIMS - presumably the data they collect are for any number of things - but is the info sold, to a data broker or advertisers or marketers or etc.?
There is a good chance the candidate sourcing tools they used are plugged into the data brokers.
Not in the UK or EU: they'd have to have your explicit consent to be legal.
good point - gdpr.
I always hear about selling data. What is all this data worth? If I had an etsy shop or a chess site, do companies want to buy this data? and for how much and for what? Credit-score modelling?
Point being, I can just about guarantee that your data is in these systems. It's probably being used for targeted advertising, recruiting tools, etc. And I wouldn't be surprised if half the data tied to your name is wrong (it was for me when I looked myself up).