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Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

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Why would Glassdoor keep this information? And why would they say they kept it rather than saying they had already deleted it?

Regardless, they need to just delete it now and say they lost the information, and risk the wrath of the NZ legal system rather than risking never getting a review again.

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Glassdoor has posted a notice on ZURU's page regarding this: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Reviews/ZURU-Reviews-E2286297.h... It appears a few other companies are doing this too, including Kraken ( https://www.kraken.com/ ) as you can see here: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Overview/Working-at-Kraken-Digi... EDIT: If anyone from Glassdoor is reading this, please advise on a way to either unlink my profile from my ident…

That's actually a fantastic response. - Reminds reviewers to avoid libel, since it may undergo legal review. - Tells potential employees or customers that this is how the company responds to bad press/negativity (i.e. disproportionately). - Doesn't subject Glassdoor to potential libel since the statement is objectively true (see court records). Although I won't get too positive about Glassdoor as I've read negative r…

Reminder that libel vs truth is dependent on where you are. In the US you don’t risk libel when speaking the truth but there are places where this isn’t the case.

Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC Danish law states that work email may be used for private purposes and that anything clearly labeled as private is to be considered such. For example, by moving email to a folder called “private”. For the employer to open/read such communication would be highly illegal, akin to opening others private snail mail. I do believe that this also extends to corporate issued phones and computers. Especially since you’re…

That doesn’t apply at all here?

> here

I think you need to specify "here" to get an answer to that question.

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This is the worst kind of publicity for ZURU. They thought it was difficult to hire employees because of a handful of critical reviews on Glassdoor? It's about to get a lot harder. The company should have spent those extra resources researching how to make their employees happier (and hence, more productive).

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Glassdoor has posted a notice on ZURU's page regarding this: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Reviews/ZURU-Reviews-E2286297.h... It appears a few other companies are doing this too, including Kraken ( https://www.kraken.com/ ) as you can see here: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Overview/Working-at-Kraken-Digi... EDIT: If anyone from Glassdoor is reading this, please advise on a way to either unlink my profile from my ident…

> It appears a few other companies are doing this too, including Kraken ( https://www.kraken.com/ ) Kraken is still silly for going after them, IMO, but the Kraken case isn't as cut and dry. The person who had left the review on Kraken had accepted a large severance package that was conditional on signing a NDA. I think the bad PR Kraken got for going after them wasn't worth it (especially as the review wasn't really…

NDAs are sometimes not in the public interest and should be violated in those cases.

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Welcome to The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave©

Isn't the final law here New Zealand's law?

No, they get the user information now - before any charge is made in New Zealand to justify providing access to the data.

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> If so, is this legal? If it’s a company provided laptop then it’s a good idea to assume that every keystroke, DNS request, and network packet is fair game. Laptops are cheap. There’s no reason to mix personal and corporate usage.

> If it’s a company provided laptop then it’s a good idea to assume that every keystroke, DNS request, and network packet is fair game. In the USA and other countries with subpar privacy laws.

Correct me if I'm wrong but if the assumption here is that the EU prevents employers from reading private correspondence of employees then I find nothing to back that up. On the contrary, an employer in the EU explicitly seems to have such rights, given they jump through a few formal hoops first:

https://www.grcworldforums.com/business/can-employers-legall...

Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

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If a formal legal-entity organization keeps your personal data, non-anonymized, then the those world states it operates in can be assumed to have access to the data. And then it is a question of what private corporations can get the state to provide them with - officially or unofficially.
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