Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate...
by wutbrodo on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:55PM
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> Even if you were to trust that Blind would not provide their information to 3rd parties
This is literally 100% of Blind's value prop. It's a fairly reasonable assumption, especially when balanced against behavior your employer may not like but wouldn't be super upset about (eg sharing constructive criticism vs hinting at confidential information).
I've used Blind, mostly read-only, since Google spoiled me by getting me used to an incredibly robust internal culture of open discussion (this was several years ago; I can't speak to the Google of today), and I don't really have any concerns at all about being tied to my real identity.
Those two statements are at odds. Any large company (especially in a technical industry) is going to monitor internet usage and retain e-mail/internet logs, or at least have the capability to do so. Anyone with a technical background is going to understand that using their employer's infrastructure to verify is going to directly link their real/work identity with their Blind account. Even if you were to trust that Blind would not provide their information to 3rd parties you would still have to assume that the company could still easily find out who had answered questions (but maybe not how they answered). Depending on how the publicly reported results were skewed, and how many people responded, that could still very easily lead to someone being directly identified or at least flagged by their employer.