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Fun fact: I was investigated by literal Pinkertons before I got hired at MSFT. I forget what they're calling themselves these days -- some corporate mouthful o
by 1attice 4y ago
Fun fact: I was investigated by literal Pinkertons before I got hired at MSFT.
I forget what they're calling themselves these days -- some corporate mouthful or another -- but I was able to trace ownership back. It was the name-brand brand.
I suppose I passed the investigation, but jeez.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoWhat is scary about private information hoovering, private profiling, private credit score reporting and tracking, and of course private security/armies, is that it provides all the infrastructure for a turnkey change for authoritarian regimes. Especially since the era of the megacorps makes their reach so powerful. And the (Godwins Law warning) third reich was very aligned with corporations, so much so that American megacorps and cartels were meeting to discuss overthrow of the US government for a similar system. SO all the ghosting abuse by google, ebay, etc is very scary.
- 1attice 4y agoPrecisely this. I ring every alarm I can about this, since leaving. The other side of the one-way mirror (digging through telemetry, part of the DRI responsibility which comes with work on Azure) leaves little doubt about the dizzying scope of surveillance. All it takes is one regime change, and boom.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoThe Pinkerton Agency is owned by the a Swiss security company called Securitas.