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Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The fact alone that they were storing your name in the first place means that was always possible. Frankly, this isn’t anything to be concerned about anymore than being concerned about trusting literally any private business that doesn’t publicly document their data retention practices and also subject themselves to routine audits. You should be concerned about that though by the way. But my advice is to not wait around for it to become obvious.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They weren't storing your name in the first place; they've acquired a new service 'blowfish' for which an account is automatically created for you if you currently or in the past have used glassdoor. Blowfish demands a real name to be used at all. (including to delete your account)

Ontop of this, after linking the two services on your behalf; glassdoor will now automatically populate your real name and any other information they can gleam from blowfish, your resumes, and any other sources they can find, regardless of whether the information is correct (users have reported lots of incorrect changes). This is new.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

One gleans information.

One gleams the cube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Finger missed the n key... Didn't mean to type gleam

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Lol, i appreciate any chance to reference that weird 80s movie!