Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
by kitd on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:52AM
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Even if what you say is technically true, Slack appear to have interpreted that as saying that they can't do business with anyone who as ever in the past opened up the Slack app in a designated country, whatever their nationality and/or reason for being there. At the very least, that is a shoddy algorithm.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
by mirimir on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:19AM
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> ... who as ever in the past opened up the Slack app in a designated country ...
But they don't know that. They have IP addresses. And they do geolocation. But IP-based geolocation isn't reliable enough for that.
Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
by dragonwriter on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:20PM
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> But they don't know that.
They have information from which they conclude that; this information is fallible and conclusions are not certain, but that's true of virtually all “knowledge” about the material world.