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How certain are you that in all jurisdictions where an (ex-)employer can get an injunction to force glassdoor to reveal the email address they wouldn't be able

by patrec 4y ago

How certain are you that in all jurisdictions where an (ex-)employer can get an injunction to force glassdoor to reveal the email address they wouldn't be able to get the legit email provider to reveal your true identity?

exodust 4y ago
Do you extend that to the VPN provider used to sign up to the email provider? How far should companies battle to reveal the sources of mean reviews? Why not simply reply to those reviews with a counterbalancing response? It's not a big deal. I don't condone making fake reviews out of spite, or whatever is claimed in this case, but chasing reviewers through court action is petty. One of the values on Zuru website is something about "think different" but what is thinking different about suing a negative reviewer? So much bragging over there on the zurutoys.co/about-us pages, they talk themselves up big time. No environmental statement that I can see btw, just how amazing they are. Should environmental policies start imposing limits on how many plastic fish fidget spinners the world needs? If less quantities are made, their rarity provides value on the used/recycled market. May mean less rooms in mansion for company heads. Better for planet though.
throwaway744678 4y ago
Create a gmail address from your local McDonald's wifi?
- heavyset_go 4y ago
  IP addresses aren't the only way to identify a user. I also assume large free hotspot providers collect enough identifying information from their users for the purpose of aiding investigators and courts in identifying abuse of their networks. A subpoena could provide that info, and hotspot providers can choose to just hand over that info when requested.
deadbunny 4y ago
Glassdoor provides the email `ilikebigbutts@gmail.com`, Google only have VPN/Public WiFi IPs for that account because I'm not an idiot who put my real details into the Google Account. Not sure I see the problem. They gonna subpoena Starbucks to get the (now probably long deleted) security footage for the time the negative review was posted?
- Ajedi32 4y ago
  Google, Microsoft, etc make you provide a phone number to create an account, at least when you do it through Tor. It's annoyingly hard to create a truly anonymous email account these days. Even more privacy-respecting providers like ProtonMail make you verify your account using a phone number or email address when signing up through Tor (though at least with ProtonMail they claim to not associate that information with your account, and you can bypass verification by upgrading to a paid account via a Bitcoin payment).

by patrec 4y ago

exodust 4y ago

Do you extend that to the VPN provider used to sign up to the email provider? How far should companies battle to reveal the sources of mean reviews? Why not simply reply to those reviews with a counterbalancing response? It's not a big deal. I don't condone making fake reviews out of spite, or whatever is claimed in this case, but chasing reviewers through court action is petty. One of the values on Zuru website is something about "think different" but what is thinking different about suing a negative reviewer? So much bragging over there on the zurutoys.co/about-us pages, they talk themselves up big time. No environmental statement that I can see btw, just how amazing they are. Should environmental policies start imposing limits on how many plastic fish fidget spinners the world needs? If less quantities are made, their rarity provides value on the used/recycled market. May mean less rooms in mansion for company heads. Better for planet though.

throwaway744678 4y ago

Create a gmail address from your local McDonald's wifi?

heavyset_go 4y ago
IP addresses aren't the only way to identify a user. I also assume large free hotspot providers collect enough identifying information from their users for the purpose of aiding investigators and courts in identifying abuse of their networks. A subpoena could provide that info, and hotspot providers can choose to just hand over that info when requested.

deadbunny 4y ago

Glassdoor provides the email `ilikebigbutts@gmail.com`, Google only have VPN/Public WiFi IPs for that account because I'm not an idiot who put my real details into the Google Account. Not sure I see the problem. They gonna subpoena Starbucks to get the (now probably long deleted) security footage for the time the negative review was posted?

Ajedi32 4y ago
Google, Microsoft, etc make you provide a phone number to create an account, at least when you do it through Tor. It's annoyingly hard to create a truly anonymous email account these days. Even more privacy-respecting providers like ProtonMail make you verify your account using a phone number or email address when signing up through Tor (though at least with ProtonMail they claim to not associate that information with your account, and you can bypass verification by upgrading to a paid account via a Bitcoin payment).