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Thursday, March 21, 2024


GLASSDOOR NO LONGER ANONYMOUS

cellio (via Hacker News, Reddit):

> Glassdoor now requires your real name and will add it to older accounts
> without your consent if they learn it, and your only option is to delete your
> account. They do not care that this puts people at risk with their employers.
> They do not care that this seems to run counter to their own data-privacy
> policies.
> 
> […]
> 
> After I responded to that support email last week, I found that they had
> updated my profile to add my real name and location, the name pulled from the
> email From line I didn’t think to cloak because who does that? I never gave
> consent for that change, and said so explicitly when I objected. (In what
> follows, I was so fixated on my name that I didn’t immediately notice my city
> was there too. I don’t know how long it’s been there.)

Ashley Belanger:

> Glassdoor’s spokesperson told Ars that Glassdoor does not comment on specific
> user accounts, only sharing a statement that does not seem to apply to
> Monica’s situation.
> 
> […]
> 
> EFF’s Mackey told Ars that there may be other risks to Glassdoor users.
> Employers could leverage real names or information used on Fishbowl to
> “potentially narrow and/or identify” Glassdoor reviewers. And the Fishbowl and
> Glassdoor data being combined means that information linking accounts could be
> subject to legal requests, such as an employer subpoena or a law enforcement
> request for data.
> 
> […]
> 
> Glassdoor’s support team told Monica that the only way to delete information
> from her Fishbowl account was to “download the Fishbowl app and log in with
> either a social connection, your work email, or phone number to gain access to
> your account.”

Todd Struthers:

> I was forced to add at least one job history, write one job review, and enter
> my salary history for at least one job BEFORE they would let me delete my
> review and account.

Glassdoor Privacy Web Working




3 COMMENTS RSS · TWITTER · MASTODON

Old Unix Geek
March 22, 2024 12:49 AM

This is outrageous. As it was Glassdoor had many very-hard-to-believe 5 star
reviews by dubious companies. Now, people will be blacklisted from their
industries by over eager HR drones. Then HR software will use it to
automatically blacklist them. And that's assuming people don't lie as to who
they are when registering.

Ben
March 27, 2024 10:05 PM

> I was forced to add at least one job history, write one job review, and enter
my salary history…

It seems to be possible to bypass this by visiting the user settings page
directly at . (I got through the modal prompt by using my browser's developer
tools to remove it and its overlay from the DOM, at which point the settings
link was accessible.)

Ben
March 27, 2024 10:06 PM

In my previous comment, the URL got stripped out:
https://www.glassdoor.com/member/profile/settings.htm


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