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This is pretty plainly a terrible move, and might destroy them with lawsuits from the users who are able to show harm. (Though I think most of those harmed won
by neilv 3y ago
This is pretty plainly a terrible move, and might destroy them with lawsuits from the users who are able to show harm. (Though I think most of those harmed won't be able to prove it, nor even know for certain it's the reason for specific instances of harm to them.)
Interesting is that maybe prominent among those harmed by this underhanded privacy violation are... us techbros.
And it'll hit us where we feel it most, which is in our large salaries -- or lack of same, once we get fired for criticism speech on Glassdoor, and then HR hiring pipeline systems for some other jobs start denylisting our applications, for being a troublemaker who makes public negative comments about other employers on Glassdoor.
If experiencing this harm close to home -- to ourselves and friends/colleagues -- translates into conscientiousness when we're the ones making decisions about other people's privacy, then that's a silver lining.
More generally, you know how sometimes someone is harmed, and that person then goes on to harm others in the same way (as if inspired), but when a different person is harmed, they instead go on to defend others from harm (as if inspired)? It seems the latter person is better for society.