Does linkedin 'leak' too much information

Posted by Ian Holsman Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:44:00 GMT

I was just reading how Torsten started a new job at a ‘Sekret’ Company.

so I was interested, and did a bit of sleuthing to find out about it.

Thanks to linked in, I can see 15 people who are working there, from their CTO down to their PA.

The problem being, most of the people are well know for their work in certain fields. so I can determine with a degree of certainty what space their ‘Sekret’ company is in by the people working there.

So .. if you want to keep your company sekret, you need to be careful of social networks, especially when your staff are well known in their fields.

now while most of these people are my friends and linked in directly, others are not.. so the people at Torsten’s company at viewable by all the people I have considered to be my friends… these people may be in direct competition to Torsten’s company..

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  1. Avatar Torsten Curdt said about 3 hours later:

    I really doubt you can tell anything from linkedin …otherwise I would not have written that blog post ;) How stupid do you think I am? ;)

  2. Avatar Thom May said about 7 hours later:

    You might, actually, be quite surprised :-)

  3. Avatar Ian said about 17 hours later:

    I hope so. Thom

  4. Avatar Pier Fumagalli said 1 day later:

    I’m no a cospiracy theorist, but I believe that it’s not all that “random” that from one day to the other you found all that information in LinkedIn.

    And please, leave the P.A. alone! :) :)

  5. Avatar Ian said 1 day later:

    Pier. believe it or not, while I have heard of the company before, I had no particular interest in them…just like all the other secret web startups i’ve come across in the years.

    I was just amazed that I could find out as much as I could compared t what info google has about it… thats all.

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