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First off, thanks again for taking the time to speak with us on HN. I think you’re missing/avoiding the issue that people might want to hide the very fact that
by yaacov 6y ago
First off, thanks again for taking the time to speak with us on HN.
I think you’re missing/avoiding the issue that people might want to hide the very fact that they have a Triplebyte account at all. It implies that they have job hunted in the last 5 or so years, and someone who’s been at a single company for longer than that might not want that information to be available.
I work at Google, and I can tell you as a fact that our Privacy Working Groups would never let us launch something like this without explicit user consent.
- areyousure 6y agoGoogle did something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy
- seebs 6y agoGoogle did something significantly worse -- and spent ages apologizing for it and never really recovered from the reputation hit, and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure.
- eitland 6y ago> and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure. Absolutely. Google+ became really nice towards the end, but HN kept hating it, and I guess partly because of Buzz.
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- throwphoton 6y agoWow... > Google Buzz publicly disclosed (on the user's Google profile) a list of the names of Gmail contacts that the user has most frequently emailed or chatted with. Google Buzz is something you definitely don't want to be similar to.
- yaacov 6y agoThe disaster that was Google Buzz has left a thick bureaucratic scar tissue designed to prevent something like that from happening again. Here’s an old article about it: https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/google_privacy/index.htm https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/google_privacy/i... I suspect TripleByte is about to learn some similar lessons.