New linkedin.User Agreement
Those thing are getting worst first it was dropbox now linkedinYou own the information you provide LinkedIn under this Agreement, and may request its deletion at any time, unless you have shared information or content with others and they have not deleted it, or it was copied or stored by other users. Additionally, you grant LinkedIn a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sublicenseable, fully paid up and royalty-free right to us to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, process, analyze, use and commercialize, in any way now known or in the future discovered, any information you provide, directly or indirectly to LinkedIn, including, but not limited to, any user generated content, ideas, concepts, techniques or data to the services, you submit to LinkedIn, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties. Any information you submit to us is at your own risk of loss as noted in Sections 2 and 3 of this Agreement.
By providing information to us, you represent and warrant that you are entitled to submit the information and that the information is accurate, not confidential, and not in violation of any contractual restrictions or other third party rights. It is your responsibility to keep your LinkedIn profile information accurate and updated.
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Seriously, what the hell is the problem? This is just some nutter tin-foil hat stuff, you think linked-in is going to... Sell.... Your resume?.... To..... ??
If their EULA said ANYTHING ELSE, they would just be asking for legal trouble.
...and that's why you might want to check a TOS and ensure you're not acting against your IT policy. Because people do use dropbox and other 3rd party tools at work where they are not even aware they're signing away certain rights. While dropbox is certainly one of the trustworthy providers, you sure don't want to accidentially find something from your studio floating around in the wild because shady-service-xy gave it to their advertising partners or affiliates. And that's why you'd like to take this seriously if it's not your own personal work you're uploading.
...but then again it's your job
although if you read the TOS, it's not your resume they care about - it's your content and personal data they can use - it'll probably end up with some company which serves you customized advertising based on the info they datamined from your resume - depending on any other affiliates they may combine this data and..... profit? not that I care, but I guess that's the deal behind this TOS.
As for LinkedIn. I haven't used a resume to get a job in the last 10 years. You're all welcome to it
Those thing are getting worst first it was geocities now deviantart
Depending on how you want to look at it indirectly could mean anything on your portfolio site should you link your portfolio from linkedIN.
But thats "tin-foil hat" grasping.
(this was a totally fail fake comment thought specifying that it was tin-foil hat grasping would clarify its not seriousness, but i suck at words so /fail)
Seriously people, I think everyone has just started reading their user agreements. This stuff has been around forever. Enough with the tinfoil hats.
This.
Information is a commodity. It's invaluable to advertisers and marketing to determine how to better target their ads to you and everyone else out there. Sites like LinkedIn aggregate untold amounts of information, but it's not really organized for easy reference if your goal is to blast targeted ads at people. If LinkedIn claims a license to your information (which by the way, they didn't ask, they just went ahead and did it. That's not exactly an "agreement"), then they have the power to organize this information and sell it to the highest bidder. They also have the power to use your information for their own advertising as well. "John Doe is a 10 year veteran programmer and he just got a job at Microsoft's Windows team, thanks to LinkedIn."
It's not like this information is being blasted out into public to anyone who steps outside their door. It has to be sought out and asked for.
If linked-in is using information about me to tailor ads to me so they can keep operating, as a free service, more power to them. This is essentially what Google does anyway. To me this is a very fair trade off, I would prefer advertisers are paying for this service, and not me paying for it with my own money.
If anyone is really worried so much about their personal information, you probably shouldn't be on the internet in the first place.
Please explain to me what is so terrible about this? If you don't want people to know that you've gotten a new job, you wouldn't be on Linked-in. But even then, this is simply conjecture, lets hold off on the pitch forks and torches until they *actually do this*.
You're voluntarily entering in your information, you're voluntarily using the service. Any and all data you put into this system is a choice you've made. This isn't some malware that hacked your computer and is tracking your browsing history.
http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy
in fact, they are not allowed to do this without your consent - hence they put a clause in the TOS to which you have to agree to use the service.
Otherwise your webhost may just take your "openly posted" folio and sell it (in fact some shady free web hosts do have TOSes that just allow that)
Anyone who uses your personal info or artwork, be it public or not, without your explicit consent has no right to do so unless you sign your rights away (which you partially do with linkedin). The rest is up to you how trustworthy you find the person to be to which you sign the rights to.
Unfortunately it's quite tricky for the average consumer to find out how their personal data ends up at a certain place. But in europe some consumer groups actually tracked down data leaks and took it to court. (now this is NOT related to linkedin though - but some companies were actually of a similar calibre as linkedin)