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Ask HN: Who owns copyright to your resume? Can I limit how long companies store?

4 pointsby throwaway13000almost 6 years ago
Offlate, I became curious and concerned. How long can a company keep my resume? What can I do to limit them from sharing with "AI" companies? For example, if I send my resume to company_1, company_2 so on till company_10. Each of them separately gives my resume to AI company 'C' for insights. Now, I do not want 'C' to aggregate the information and tell each of these company that I have recently interviewed in 10+ places. How do I limit this aggregation of my resume? I also do not want 'C' to filter me out using an old resume of mine(may be one that is two years old). How can I limit them from storing my resume for too long?

2 comments

db48xalmost 6 years ago
In the US you can't copyright a list of facts, and a resume is mostly a list of facts. You can copyright the presentation of the facts, if its sufficiently distinctive from other presentations, but your hypothetical ai company isn't going to keep the presentation around. They're going to copy the facts into a database that they can query.
ktpsnsalmost 6 years ago
While your local law may give you some tools (thinking of the new European GDPR thingy), practically you cannot take influence of what is done with your data once you publish them/give them out of hand. Best you can do is counter misinformation by keeping an up to date CV in the web (say on your website).
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