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Opt-Out Is Not Consent. Why Scraped Talent Databases Can't Be Made Compliant.

While the industry argued about ATS auto-rejection, the real privacy scandal was assembling itself upstream. Juicebox claims 800 million profiles. None of those people opted in. HireEZ's opt-out is a five-step process. The ICO is naming names. Clearview lost €70M+ in fines defending the same "it's public" argument these tools quietly rely on. Inside the scrape-and-rank sourcing economy nobody asked to be in, and the only architecture that survives what's coming.