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The updated Privacy Policy now explicitly discloses that ZipRecruiter may collect voice or audio recordings as part of Identity Data, a category of personal information not previously listed in the policy. The policy also expands its definition of AI to include large language models and similar tools used in job matching. Under the revised terms, when you authorize ZipRecruiter to connect your account with a third-party platform (such as LinkedIn or Google), the company gains permission to access relevant information you provided to that platform. You can review the prior version of the policy through a link provided in the updated document.
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We may use information about you, your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account to prevent, detect, investigate and address safety, security, fraud and abuse risks, and to develop our algorithms and models to identify violations...
Prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.
prevent and detect fraud against you and us
"We also may use automatic scanning technology on messages to allow us to recognize patterns on our messaging platform to make your professional communications more efficient and informed...check links shared in messages for malicious sites and looks for blacklisted keywords to detect spam and fraud.Excerpt from ZipRecruiter's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “We also may use automatic scanning technology on messages to allow us to recognize patterns on our messaging platform to make your professional communications more efficient and informed...check links shared in messages for malicious sites and looks for blacklisted keywords to detect spam and fraud.”
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