Can we make the rule that it's not OK to post negative stories about YCombinator companies on this site? There are a million places to talk negative about everyhing. Here, we're trying to build things. We know no one is perfect. Lets make this place a bastion of positivity instead of negativity.
Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
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Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
#32Can we make the rule that it's not OK to post negative stories about YCombinator companies on this site? There are a million places to talk negative about everyhing. Here, we're trying to build things. We know no one is perfect. Lets make this place a bastion of positivity instead of negativity.
Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
#33Can we make the rule that it's not OK to post negative stories about YCombinator companies on this site? There are a million places to talk negative about everyhing. Here, we're trying to build things. We know no one is perfect. Lets make this place a bastion of positivity instead of negativity.
Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
#34I think it's time for the government to give you as many names as you want to give out to companies, and there's no reason for anyone who isn't suing you for it to know which of your aliases go together. Also aliases should be shared, to further conflate things. (nothing should stop my friends and i from sharing an alias and persona - companies should be legally forced to bend over backwards and enable this, for ever…
You don't need the government to give you a new name to start using a new name. You pick one and start using it.
Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
LOL. That's why some banks have option to generate CC numbers on the fly and tying those numbers to particular vendor.
Who still does that? I know American Express used to offer one-time CC numbers, but no longer does.
Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
LOL. That's why some banks have option to generate CC numbers on the fly and tying those numbers to particular vendor.
Who still does that? I know American Express used to offer one-time CC numbers, but no longer does.
Another company, Privacy.com, does on-the-fly numbers as debit cards drafting from your bank account.
Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
#37Can we make the rule that it's not OK to post negative stories about YCombinator companies on this site? There are a million places to talk negative about everyhing. Here, we're trying to build things. We know no one is perfect. Lets make this place a bastion of positivity instead of negativity.
Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
This quote from another employee also looks naive now (and I'm not trying to offend him): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13086454
No, I'm not naive, and I, proudly, stand behind everything I wrote. The person in the article was terminated before I joined, so I don't know what the systems were like back then, but every time I access production systems, I have a ton of messages telling me that our access is being completely tracked and we are prohibited from doing anything that was mentioned in the article. I haven't actually tested to see what I…
If you want to defend uber, it's pretty easy, just say there you know people that work on the team that audits the logs of employee access to personal data every quarter, and if those logs aren't justified by a ticket people get fired.
Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
#39This seems like a good place to tell Uber users that the only way of removing your credit card details from your Uber account is to either: a) plead with Uber's customer service to do so or b) add another payment method (like another credit card) This, of course, is horribly bad practice. I can only imagine that they arrived at this very peculiar arrangement after extensive A/B testing - Uber has hired plenty of FB f…
Grubhub refused to delete my account even after pleading with them to do so many many times. To me seems like a general tech company trend not something specific to uber.
Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
#40This seems like a good place to tell Uber users that the only way of removing your credit card details from your Uber account is to either: a) plead with Uber's customer service to do so or b) add another payment method (like another credit card) This, of course, is horribly bad practice. I can only imagine that they arrived at this very peculiar arrangement after extensive A/B testing - Uber has hired plenty of FB f…