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Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by dx034 »

mjd wrote: post #31

They emailed me about this back on January 30: Subject: Your company ExampleCo will soon manage your Trello account Good news! Your Trello account is getting an upgrade. ExampleCo will now manage Trello accounts with a example.com email address, which includes yours (mjd+trello@example.com). The "Good news" part looked like marketing bullshit, but the rest of the message was menacing enough that I was able to contact…

Isn't it standard to open separate accounts for companies? My employers would've never even allowed me to use a personal account or personal email for business content. In the end, they need to be able to claim the content if an employee leaves the company. Mixing personal and company accounts or even accounts of several employers sounds dangerous to me.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by shashanktomar »

sbrother wrote: post #88

This is scary. I’m trying to understand - I have several Trello accounts, one that I use for my own personal work and some consulting clients, and several other accounts with @client.com emails. Does this mean that if I have my personal account added as a secondary email anywhere on a client owned board, they can take control of my personal account including other clients’ IP? If so that’s terrifying and we need to f…

That is precisely what happened to me.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by lki876 »

This sounds like a major GDPR violation. If they do business anywhere in Europe they could face major fines if someone were to lodge a complaint with a national national data protection authority.

And here is a list of national data protection authorities in Europe: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by talonx »

nerdbaggy wrote: post #22
shashanktomar wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am the user in this case. I understand Atlassian's position in this case but this is so hard to track over such a long period of time. I left this workplace almost 5 years back and the account worked fine. Then it suddenly stopped working without any notification from their side.

They should of sent an e-mail I agree

"Should have"

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by ajobforme »

jimbob45 wrote: post #65
dreyfiz wrote: post #60

GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself. All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts. My relationship with GitHub signi…

The million dollar question is what you use now instead of GitHub.

atlassian's?

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by Kiro »

mjd wrote: post #31

They emailed me about this back on January 30: Subject: Your company ExampleCo will soon manage your Trello account Good news! Your Trello account is getting an upgrade. ExampleCo will now manage Trello accounts with a example.com email address, which includes yours (mjd+trello@example.com). The "Good news" part looked like marketing bullshit, but the rest of the message was menacing enough that I was able to contact…

I got the same and it also said:

"Use another Trello account for anything not related to [my previous company]. Grab a new, free Trello account in seconds and move your vacation board (or whatever should be elsewhere!) to that one."

My former company is not even using Trello and everything I have there is personal. I created the Trello with my personal email and only afterwards added the company email to it to access some experimental board we never ended up using.

I didn't comply and instead just removed the company email from the account. I seriously don't see why I need to create a new account and move stuff for no reason at all. Why does the organisation email trump my personal one that I actually created the account with? Should I be worried?

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

dreyfiz wrote: post #60

GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself. All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts. My relationship with GitHub signi…

So now I worry there may be a downside to Github is now free for teams https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867627

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by subjectnull »

I'm not blaming you by any stretch but this just further reinforces my view that everyone should be self-hosting wherever they can.

You simply can't trust any corporation to do the right thing and GAF about people's right to privacy or access to their own information.

I think whoever solves the problem of making it easy to offer web application services while allowing users to own, protect and backup their own data will be rewarded.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by Legogris »

OT, but I had this with Azure. My MS account was tied to the AD of a previous customer. Can not access Azure dashboard or services at all. 5 years later and still not resolved, despite numerous e-mails, phone calls, with several people (they even insisted I install a .exe file in order to be able to do screensharing. It took some persistance to make them accept that I shouldn't have to install Windows and install a binary just to be able to restore my account. That was about 6 months ago.

If this is how Microsoft support works for real, no wonder the scammers getting people to install malware are successful).

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