Google breaking European privacy law by hoarding personal data of job candidates
"Maslouh was last year a 34-year old employee of Randstad, which was contracted by Google to identify potential job candidates and enter their publicly available information—derived from services such as LinkedIn—into gHire, Google’s applicant tracking system."<p>At this point it is probably well-presumed that LinkedIn leaks to who-knows-where. Therefore, the real punchline is:<p>"When he accessed the system with authorization, Maslouh noticed the excessive age of some of the European personal data within it, and also noted that many of the records for so-called passive applicants--who had not actively applied to Google-- showed no evidence of Google ever having reached out to them. Many of these individuals were listed as working for organizations such as Interpol, the CIA, the U.K. Home Office, the European Parliament, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission."<p>I've always wondered the apparent gullibility of people who should probably know better, including those working at, say, INTERPOL. That said, the CIA stuff is presumably fake, given the huge amount of fake personas curated in LinkedIn over the decades for all kinds of nefarious purposes.