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Yeah, I've had my Github or other related things often mentioned by companies headhunting, even though I don't have _that_ much on it.

I literally received a job offer not long ago from a very high profile startup that only has a handful of employees, based on my Github

Not everyone lives in California or the US.

Other than that.. yes I agree, but the fact that so many companies set up contracts that can effectively steal the personal work of their employee if they decide to, is kind of a problem.

but if they've made you sign it, what's stopping them from changing their mind if any of your projects becomes worth something or makes noise in some way?

I agree with that but there's a big problem here which is that you can get scammed big time by your employer.

If any of your side projects get big, depending on the contract your employer might be able to claim ownership of it.

If you're doing side projects despite those kind of contracts, you're effectively trusting your employer to be nice when they have legal right to not be. This isn't a great position to be in.

In my experience, companies tend to refuse investing in doing open source work because they're usually scared that it will be extra work, a waste of time, or will cause legal issues/scare investors.

I'd hope that actual programmers in a team would be excited about doing open source work if given the chance though? It's just hard to convince a business that it's worth doing.

So I've worked in the game industry where this happens even more aggressively than the rest of tech, and I've had contracts in at least 2 jobs where I was explicitly forbidden from engaging in any activity outside of work (I don't remember how it was worded, but it was so strict that even doing charity work could have fallen under it).

That combined with the frequent contracts of "we own everything you make while you're employed by us" effectively means side projects are either forbidden, or can be stolen by the company at any time, which is similar.

Not all companies are that bad but it's still a thing, and a lot of employment contracts make it very hard to work on a side project without your company potentially being able to claim ownership of it.

The problem is this email shouldn't be associated with my new name. And yes this email has previously been accessible publicly, it's very old and has been on linkedin or other things in the past, but it was under a different name. It should never have been associated with the new one.

My guess is that the email database updated one part of the data but not the other at one point or another from some public source.

In any case I don't really care how this happened, I mostly care about finding out which company is selling that wrong email to recruiters and how to fix it