Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns

Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by marcinzm on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:05PM (#21484955)

Someone told Gitlab they'll pay them $XXX/year but only if Gitlab has no employees in China/Russia in sensitive roles. Gitlab decided the money is worth it since they have bills to pay. Doesn't seem very mysterious to me.

There's many stories of companies only letting people use burner laptops if they go to China and Russia so it's not a very far fetched contract requirement.

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Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by alteria on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:02PM (#21486126)

I know several companies, including one I've worked for before, with very strict no company property laptop or phone policy for entering China.

Issues were mainly related to IP and data sovereignty.

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Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by remoteworker471 on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:49PM (#21488205)

My current employer maintains a list of banned countries. While there's nothing stopping me from going to any of them, I am not allowed to bring my laptop into the country, and accounts will generally be locked during the duration of travel.

I'm honestly not seeing what the problem is with this policy. Gitlab's reaction to the outrage has been incredibly poor, but the policy itself seems sane based on IP laws and data protection laws in certain countries.

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