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… and it never occurred to me for even a moment that any user of Glassdoor provided personally identifiable details … why would anyone do this ?
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Where can I see the op ? Blog says they are scared to repost it but I’m not.
Where can I see the “offending” material ?
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https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Kraken-Dig... https://www.kraken.com/ is doing it too.
This Google shows all the companies listed within Google’s index with the “Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action” flag; just kept removing the companies for the SERPs using the negative search operator until none were left. No idea why Glassdoor doesn’t just have a list of all the companies doing this. https://www.google.com/search?q=Glassdoor+Alert:+Employer+Le...
-Steidle
-legatum
-Medspira
-Media Consulta
-Keller, Fishback & Jackson
-ABG Accessories
-Echelon Environmental
-Admiral Markets
-canidae
-Discovery Clinical Trials
-kraken
-zuru
-bw legal
-kurland
-SynapseFI
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Glassdoors business model is selling the ability to take down bad reviews. Why would they out their customers?
Hmm, that doesn't correlate with what they say[0] on their support site: "No! Employers cannot pay Glassdoor to remove reviews." That said, it seems like negative reviews can easily end up violating one of the many other terms of use[1] around review content. Specifically that a user will not: "Post Content that is defamatory, libelous, or fraudulent"... and "Act in a manner that is [...] otherwise objectionable (as…
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> 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...
It is very hard to see the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC - the body which handles workplace disputes) accepting that identifying a user on Glassdoor would meet the test of being necessary, legitimate, or proportional. This is particularly true as the WRC has previously found that monitoring internet usage for example for pornography is not proportionate where the employer has the option instead to block such sites and make a policy against their access.
Of course, an unscrupulous employer could also use surreptitious surveillance and find another reason to let the employee go, although firing an employee in Ireland is notoriously difficult short of gross negligence.
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This is an interesting question post-pandemic where the network the laptop is using may be an employees home network, especially if there is some kind of active scanning involved.
Every home router should make it easy for people to create separate VLANs for work to protect against this.
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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.
Surprisingly I was at a party in SF with a bunch of Apple employees. Somehow some topic came up and I was like "I don't do anything personal on my company laptop. I especially don't look at porn". All 6 of them said they used their company laptops and phones to look at porn all the time. Wow
But they were quite frank about allowing us to do what ever we want on the laptops providing we delivered positive outcomes for the business.
If this meant the laptops were used to browse porn at home or even during business hours (clearly not on the shop floor if you were in the office) or playing video games, it was fair game.
This employer also had _incredibly_ poor standards and culture for removing misogyny and bigotry, in fact it was one of the worst I've ever seen. Not saying causation = correlation or similar but an interesting data point nonetheless.
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Surprisingly I was at a party in SF with a bunch of Apple employees. Somehow some topic came up and I was like "I don't do anything personal on my company laptop. I especially don't look at porn". All 6 of them said they used their company laptops and phones to look at porn all the time. Wow
Apple generally encourages employees to use their devices as they usually would to “dogfood”.
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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. From an OPSEC perspective, sure. But the question was whether it's legal for an employer to do it. You might also get a phone call (on your private phone) about a private medical matter while at work, but I would hope your employer couldn't use the CCTV audio they have in the office…
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This is an interesting question post-pandemic where the network the laptop is using may be an employees home network, especially if there is some kind of active scanning involved.
Every home router should make it easy for people to create separate VLANs for work to protect against this.
E.g. tag the port on the switch, run a cable to the device so that it doesn't know there's a vlan involved, block routing between vlans. As far as I can tell that's probably good but might not be.