LinkedIn search by "Flight Crew"
Feb 4, 2018, 3:10 pm
#1
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: SW London
Programs: BAEC Silver; Hilton Diamond;a miscellany of other hotel non-statuses
Posts: 3,607
LinkedIn search by "Flight Crew"
In LinkedIn's "search appearance" list I saw that someone with job of "flight crew" had found me, as well as the regular collection of searches by recruiters, etc. I'm assuming it was a direct search as there wouldn't be much professional overlap in other searches.
Is that a part of standard procedure for some pre-flight reason (unlikely - only a single occurence that I can see for many recent flights), or a bit of post-flight stalking
?
Is that a part of standard procedure for some pre-flight reason (unlikely - only a single occurence that I can see for many recent flights), or a bit of post-flight stalking
?
Feb 4, 2018, 3:22 pm
#3
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Berkshire / London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Nandos
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The why is the curious bit.
EsherFlyer do you remember making an impression on any CC member on recent flights?
Feb 4, 2018, 3:41 pm
#5
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Programs: BAEC Silver; Hilton Diamond;a miscellany of other hotel non-statuses
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) profile on social-social rather than enterprise-social networks in case they had something on their minds...
Feb 4, 2018, 4:28 pm
#7
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,844
Not sure about BA, but KLM certainly had something about ‘meet your fellow travellers/seatmates’ if you logged in with Facebook... which to me is reason enough alone for federated social logins (the ‘log in with Facebook/Twitter” buttons which now appear on so many sites) to be cast into the depths of eternal hellfire and damnation...
Feb 4, 2018, 4:36 pm
#8
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BA, Hilton
Posts: 2,091
Not to defend either BA or the FB borg, but i believe that's just something called Oauth2, and is genuinely designed to aid the consumer, as much as anything can be. Happy to defer to security experts, but my limited understanding is Oauth2 is a good thing.
Feb 4, 2018, 4:37 pm
#9
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,764
Not sure about BA, but KLM certainly had something about ‘meet your fellow travellers/seatmates’ if you logged in with Facebook... which to me is reason enough alone for federated social logins (the ‘log in with Facebook/Twitter” buttons which now appear on so many sites) to be cast into the depths of eternal hellfire and damnation...
Feb 4, 2018, 4:39 pm
#10
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BA, Hilton
Posts: 2,091
Edit: to add some meat to my claims, as I understand it, its a way of establishing identity without revealing passwords etc. So the idea is good. But that's very much my high level understanding
Feb 4, 2018, 4:55 pm
#11
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,764
I don't use them as I have no social accounts, but i believe fundamentally they are a sensible thing. Willing to be corrected obviously.
Edit: to add some meat to my claims, as I understand it, its a way of establishing identity without revealing passwords etc. So the idea is good. But that's very much my high level understanding
Edit: to add some meat to my claims, as I understand it, its a way of establishing identity without revealing passwords etc. So the idea is good. But that's very much my high level understanding
Feb 4, 2018, 5:02 pm
#12
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BA, Hilton
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As a general observation, if you want to protect your identity, don't use Google at all. I accept the data I give them, but others may not. Or may not know
Feb 4, 2018, 5:04 pm
#13
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Singapore
Programs: BA Gold. KrisFlyer Gold
Posts: 732
I think I mentioned this on here a couple of years ago, but I was in CE on a sparsely populated ex-EU service when the CSD came over for a chat and asked me whether my subsequent flight to Singapore was connected to me giving a conference presentation associated with my job, which he knew quite a lot about! After a bit of banter, he admitted to having Googled me and a couple of other passengers before the flight and digested enough of my public web profile to personalise the conversation in this way. I was pretty confused at the time, but, with hindsight, I was quite impressed and appreciated his efforts. I can well imagine, however, that some passengers might not be so keen on the crew acting in this way.
Feb 4, 2018, 5:09 pm
#14
Join Date: Aug 2013
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Fair comment, and this is not my area in IT so could be wrong, but as i understand it, it's more about establishing a right to use a service more than tracking individuals.
As a general observation, if you want to protect your identity, don't use Google at all. I accept the data I give them, but others may not. Or may not know
As a general observation, if you want to protect your identity, don't use Google at all. I accept the data I give them, but others may not. Or may not know
I do however fully accept that such protections serve very little purpose in the grand scheme of things as my data is basically all out there and all tracked in a million different ways anyway. Not to mention my real email was leaked in that enormous Experian leak so is available for all to see. But at least I take comfort in not being on twitter.
Unfortunately I am on Linkedin, the creepiest of all the sites.
Feb 4, 2018, 5:18 pm
#15
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BA, Hilton
Posts: 2,091
I don't use Google logged in and don't use Gmail other than for an 'anonymous' email I give to websites who I don't want to know my real email.
I do however fully accept that such little protections serve very little purpose as my data is basically all out there and all tracked in a million different ways anyway. Not to mention my real email was leaked in that enormous Experian leak so is available for all to see. But at least I take comfort in not being on twitter.
I do however fully accept that such little protections serve very little purpose as my data is basically all out there and all tracked in a million different ways anyway. Not to mention my real email was leaked in that enormous Experian leak so is available for all to see. But at least I take comfort in not being on twitter.
Possibly we are talking at cross purposes, don't get me wrong I am very much a privacy advocate, and my reply was very much towards the general traveller. But info will be leaked no matter how much we try. I disagree with that but accept it