Tell HN: Salary Data Is for Sale

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NocoDB

#Productivity #Spreadsheets #Developer Tools 31 social mentions

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ResistBot

If you don't feel employers should be permitted to circumvent the laws that prohibit them from demanding your current/past salary information by performing an end run through a 3rd party, you should contact your representatives. Resistbot (https://resist.bot) makes this very easy.

#Politics #Tech #Web App 162 social mentions

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Hacker News Search

You can't attack other users like that here, and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't do it again. Also: it looks like your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We also ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for, because it destroys the curious conversation this site is supposed to be for. I'm not going to ban you right now because you've also posted good things, but we need you to be aware of this rule and stop that pattern. More explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1908 social mentions

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Your Digital Rights

Theworknumber.com is yet another symptom of a much larger problem in that it is currently impractical for a regular person to enforce their rights via the court system. According to Peter Thiel “If you’re a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to our legal system...” https://theintercept.com/2016/10/31/trump-fan-peter-thiel-says-single-digit-millionaires-have-no-effective-access-to-our-legal-system/ So never-mind the non-millionaires. However it is really nice to see efforts by some regular people out there setting up services such as https://yourdigitalrights.org which is the service I just used to request my information from Equifax. It will be interesting to see what comes of it. I suppose if they do not respond in 45 days I'll file a complaint with the CA Attorney General to put yet another ping regarding Equifax on their radar. https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company This shows that ultimately it is the regular people who drive progress, while the powerful and the wealthy just take credit for it. Ultimately United States will transition to European-style privacy laws when it comes to private information like income and these credit agencies will be abolished, but the way to get there is for the regular non-millionaire people to exercise whatever "rights" they kinda have to ultimately get these annoyances shut down.

#Privacy #GDPR #CCPA 15 social mentions