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

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

According to the article, people generally don't use their real info on this site, but the site is making dubious inferences that allow them to pull the info from other sources to auto-populate the 'real' fields in their site.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

That's even worse. I bet there are tons of false positives and people facing consequences at job for bad reviews Glassdoor thinks they wrote.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

ah yes, this definitely is legal, and will continue to be legal. I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This cannot possibly be legal in Europe.