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Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent


Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users.

(Ars will only refer to Monica by her first name so that she can speak freely about her experience using Glassdoor to review employers.) In the meantime, her name remained on her profile, where it wasn't publicly available to employers but it could be used to link her to job reviews if Glassdoor introduced a bug in an update or data was ever breached, she feared. "No one has the ability to see your user profile and the contents within it, meaning no one, including your employer, will be able to see your details," Glassdoor's employee wrote.

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