Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns

Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by hrktb on Friday November 08, 2019 @12:17PM (#21484337)

That ship has sailed IMO, in that even in single location orgs you will have foreign employees with potential legal obligation toward different governments, and domestic employees with strong ties to other countries.

From that point of view Gitlab’s diacussion on hiring or not employees from specific countries seems a bit old (except if it’s for paperwork reasons)

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Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by throwawaypolicy on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:22PM (#21485111)

You will have employees from foreign countries, but not employees living in foreign countries.

This not only changes the degree to which the foreign country can influence them, but it changes the degree to which other countries can retaliate if they act as spies.

For a recent example, see the twitter employees who were spying for Saudi Arabia.

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Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by tracker1 on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:59PM (#21488303)

I think, from other comments, it's a matter of residence, not origin.

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