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>>winsto+(OP)
This is awful. And announcing this late on a Friday is what news organizations call “taking out the trash,” publicizing something when people aren’t paying attention.

>>haram_+g3
Really sorry that you think this is awful. Certainly do opt-out. I think that taking on LinkedIn and creating a better engineering resume is a good thing to do. I can assure you that the Friday announcement is a result of our team grinding to hit a planned release week, not anything other than that (I would have loved to get this out earlier in the week)

>>ammon+Q4
I think everyone here would agree taking on Linkedin is a very good thing to do, especially Triplebyte who was already in a good position and fairly well considered here.

But not this way, not forcing all of your users into a public profile by default and making them provide gvmt ids to delete their accounts. Your users gave you their data for a specific purpose, and you took it and used it totally differently. This seems like a great violation of GDPR BTW.

>>franci+3e
I am from EU, I live in Switzerland and I can tell it clearly is a GDPR violation. I’ve just sent a reply email and a account deletion request. The govt ID thing is shady, given the fact that they never requested it at sign up and that wouldn’t serve as a proof. I hope they will delete my account by the mentioned 30 days or I will fill a lawsuit. Besides common sense, privacy and trust do not work like that, at least in Switzerland and in EU. As a user, I would have been so happy to be informed about this important step (which is actually exciting) of a company I liked. And I would have been so happy to be actively involved and engaged in this step by being guided into discovering the new features / roadmap and THEN make my own decision about the opt-in. That would have been a huge win-win. I am wondering if it’s a lack of common sense or the pressure or VC funding here. That’s a pity for what I’ve considered a good company, and I hope they will revert this decision.