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📣 rapnie

What PII is Scribd likely to get after Slideshare acquisition?


I just received an email from Slideshare that Scriptd will start operating September 24, and after that their Privacy Policy [0] and ToS [1] will apply.

Opting out means you have to close your account before that date. I will probably do that as the Scribd policy does not sit well with me (but I am no lawyer so what do I know).

Does anyone know what information they're likely to receive? Would it be full LinkedIn profile data, since they might have merged profiles for their services?

[0] https://support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/articles/210129366-Privacy-Policy

[1] https://support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/articles/210129326-General-Terms-of-Use

  👤 rapnie Accepted Answer ✓
I am searching for the Close Account section still, but just did a JSON export of my data. This seems to hold little data and has following structure:

    {
      "slideshows_uploaded": [

      ],
      "comments": [

      ],
      "following_users": [

      ],
      "account_registration": {
        "created_at": "",
        "email": "",
        "first_name": null,
        "last_name": null,
        "login": "",
        "occupation": null,
        "organization": null,
        "about": "",
        "website": null,
        "industry": "",
        "profile_photo_url": ""
      },
      "contact_details": {
        "twitter": null,
        "facebook": null,
        "linkedin": null,
        "gplus": null,
        "city": null,
        "region": null,
        "country": null
      }
    }
👤 rapnie
FYI: Delete your account in Settings / Change Password section.

- https://www.linkedin.com/help/slideshare/answer/53671

They'll ask a reason and I ticked 'Privacy concern'.