Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat App

Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by randomdata on Sunday November 20, 2016 @02:28PM (#13000635)

But if we recognize that it is yet another chat app, like every other chat app, why are people even downloading it in the first place to prompt Wal-mart to feel the need to issue a statement?

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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by duaneb on Sunday November 20, 2016 @02:37PM (#13000683)

It only has the privacy profile of a chat app. The "OUR Walmart" app offers other functionality, like legal advice and concerns specific to employees, that I would imagine I would love were I an employee myself.

That said, I don't think it's out of order for... whatever OUR walmart is (a union?) to release a privacy statement. But painting them as identity thiefs, phishers, or ad resellers is absurd. In my view, Walmart is pandering to fears without actually identifying real concerns.

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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by randomdata on Sunday November 20, 2016 @02:58PM (#13000821)

> Walmart is pandering to fears without actually identifying real concerns.

What part of their concern do you not believe is real? If I were Walmart, I would certainly be concerned about others trying to gain intelligence on me.

> like legal advice and concerns specific to employees

Well, that certainly sounds like a really good way for information, that Walmart may not want just anyone to know, to leak. Maybe the intentions of OUR Walmart is nothing but pure, and hope for nothing but the best for Walmart, but I don't see what benefit there is in being so trusting? Security is about always mitigating the attack vectors, after all.

Besides, why should we believe a service named "OUR Walmart" does not want to know anything about Walmart?

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