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Today I was contacted by someone at work. She graduated school with me and our 20 year reunion was coming up. Why did she contact me at work? It was the only way they were able to track me down. I was included in promotional material by name. She told me I "was the hardest to track down"and I had to smile.

This is just a small anecdote about privacy practices and their real life impact (and how your employer can undo all of it, I guess)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It may not always be good to be invisible. You could make a website for yourself sich that people can find you and contact you. You can tgen decide if you want to write back. E.g a mastodon account would be enough. You don't gave to blog with that acc.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I would be pissed and just say "that was on purpose, fuck you".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Someone is putting a lot of work into including/inviting you.

Yea my first respond would also totally be: "Fuck that person in particular" /s

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