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

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Post by dhimes »

znpy wrote: post #127
shock wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profiles, so that none of the cookies are shared. You don't need separate Firefox profiles for that, you can use Firefox containers.

> You don't need separate Firefox profiles for that, you can use Firefox containers. Firefox Containers are awful. Only firefox profiles can give you true separation. It would have been better if Mozilla had added a better interface to profiles.

Thanks for this. I've been naively using containers. Yes, a UI for profiles would be awesome- we've been wanting that for a long time.

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

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Post by praestigiare »

Easy answer: "An email address attached to your account is being set up for SSO. You must update your account:

1. Remove the example.com address from your account. Warning: You will lose access to all boards shared with this email address.

2. Accept the SSO migration. Warning: You will no longer be able to sign in with your Trello email and password.

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

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Post by yardie »

mercer wrote: post #86
pdonis wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to my account and created few boards under it. This email was my companies email This makes it seem like it's the third of the options I mentioned (personal account which happens to have a work email as an alternate email). But what you say a little further on (quoted below) makes it clear that it's the seco…

Surely the sensible option would be for Atlassian to allow you to keep all your personal boards and only show the work-email boards if you sign in, or allow you to 'disconnect' from those? And if this is technically difficult to do (because boards are not obviously linked to email addresses, or whatever), then that's still on them, but also solvable: allow you to remove BigCo email and just not give you access to any…

And in fact this used to be how it worked. Work boards showed up in a separate section that was clearly defined as enterprise. So my private work boards, team boards, and template boards were there. My family and personal boards were under my username. And it worked like this for years. Sans souci

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

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Post by cassalian »

I am far from a lawyer, so would someone with a better understanding of the law explain to me why this wouldn't potentially violate laws around trade secrets?

If someone uses a 'personal' email for setting up their business' trello account (including what could be categorized as trade secrets); and at some point in the future, they added a different companies domain to their account as a secondary login; and then Trello hands everything over to that other company; how isn't that a violation of trade secrets?

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

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Post by lki876 »

geocar wrote: post #110
lki876 wrote: post #93

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

I’m not sure I agree. I have provided GDPR consulting in the UK over the last three years. What exactly do you think was a violation?

GDPR protects personal data, which the EU interprets very broadly. When you are working and what you are working on is included, for instance. That's basically a Trello board. Processing of such data (e.g. handing it over to a third party) without explicit consent is subject to major fines.

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

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Post by mcv »

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…

I wonder if this is something you can sue them over. Do you legally own your content? Did they or the former employer steal something from you?

It's bizarre to see so many companies handle this in such a user-hostile way. It looks like a clear sign not to use Atlassian or Github for anything private. Makes me wonder if Gitlab might be next...

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

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Post by [deleted] »

quanticle wrote: post #34
ScottFree wrote: post #28

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Let's take the personal out of it: what if you're a freelancer or a contractor and the email and account used (and subsequently lost access to) was your professional email and account? Something like scott@freetechnologies.com? This whole situation makes me think I should steer clear of trello and clients that use it.

If you're a freelancer or a contractor, and you're doing work for someone who uses Trello to manage projects, you should sign up with a throwaway e-mail address. That's what I do for Github. That way, if that organization then decides to wipe the account or mess around with its permissions after I've stopped working for them, it's no skin off my back. Personal stuff is personal , work stuff is work and ne'er shall th…

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

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Post by lifty »

shashanktomar wrote: post #75

From the comments, there is some confusion about why did i attach my personal email to a company account. That was not the case, let me clarify it. I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to…

There is no shortage of atrocious examples, like this one, that prove that people need to take digital sovereignty seriously. Our data and our interactions should not be intermediated by some digital feudalistic lord, without any recourse when something goes wrong.

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

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Post by shashanktomar »

austhrow743 wrote: post #116
shashanktomar wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is precisely what happened to me.

Elsewhere you wrote that the opposite scenario happened to you. You tainted your personal account with a work email. This person is worried about tainting their personal email with a work account.

It's evident from their reply that they do not care about a primary or a secondary email. In my case the company email was secondary, in this case it is primary.
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