Originally Posted by
DCBob
+1. The OP is obviously not too savvy about privacy settings if she is SO concerned about protecting her private life but then makes her LinkedIn profile public for all to see. All she had to do was change the LinkedIn privacy setting to "Make my public profile visible to no one," but she obviously didn't do that. I have nothing to hide from anybody, but I make my FB and LinkedIn profiles private so that uninvited strangers don't snoop.
Don't assume that just because you make your profiles private that they can't be hacked, and possibly not even intentionally. There have been a number of instances wherein personal information inadvertently became available and if I recall correctly, there was something with Facebook in this regard a few years ago. As well, there also may be a 'back door' to supposedly private info, once again not necessarily intentional but rather due to computer programming errors. The only safe way is to NOT post it if you don't want it to become public.