Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
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Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#2Posted previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39785815
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#3Posted previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39785815
Thanks.
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#4[dupe]
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705788
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#5Where there’s smoke there’s fire and I’m sure they are also purchasing gigabytes of data from vendors as well
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#6Why would add your real name on such a website?
I couldn’t read the article when rejecting the cookies (or it took very long) so maybe the answer is in there…
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#7Why would add your real name on such a website? I couldn’t read the article when rejecting the cookies (or it took very long) so maybe the answer is in there…
The answer is in there:
> One user, who goes by Monica, wrote in a post on her personal blog that Glassdoor added her name and the city where she lives to her Glassdoor profile following an email exchange with Glassdoor customer support, despite having never provided her name during the sign-up process some years earlier. Monica, whose last name we’re not publishing to protect her privacy, accused Glassdoor of getting her full name from the email she sent to customer support, which she says they added to her Glassdoor profile.
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#8I have just deleted my account.
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#9That is really shitty behaviour, and bizarre. Glassdoor is only feasible if users can have trust that their feedback is anonymous. I really hope this has not harmed anyone, I'd imagine the lower rated companies are most likely to retaliate.
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#10That is really shitty behaviour, and bizarre. Glassdoor is only feasible if users can have trust that their feedback is anonymous. I really hope this has not harmed anyone, I'd imagine the lower rated companies are most likely to retaliate.
The risk is not only retaliation by lower rated companies.
It may make users virtually unemployable if HR starts using Glassdoor as a database of publicly critical people. Given the choice between engineer 1 who never posted anything bad against a company, and engineer 2 who posted critical comments, who would you hire?