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Re:Google connects Play Store with Google+, reviews will fea... by chokma on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @11:59AM (#4837657)
Health applications - a review for an app which allows you to record you stool consistence (for Morbus Crohn) could negatively affect your chances for employment as well as open you to ridicule by others.

"You gave AcmeFamilyPlanner 4/5 stars, Mrs Candidate - say, do you want to have a career or a family?" (Hm, of course this could help remove bad employers from your list of prospective work places ;) )

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Re:Google connects Play Store with Google+, reviews will fea... by jmillikin on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @12:57PM (#4837803) 

  > "You gave AcmeFamilyPlanner 4/5 stars, Mrs Candidate -
  > say, do you want to have a career or a family?"
I am almost certain that questions like this are illegal in any nation a HN reader would want to work in.
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Re:Google connects Play Store with Google+, reviews will fea... by avar on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @01:07PM (#4837859)
You wouldn't ask that question, but use that information to disqualify the candidate before the interview.

Just because you can't legally discriminate based on certain things doesn't mean people don't find ways to do so anyway.

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Re:Google connects Play Store with Google+, reviews will fea... by waterlesscloud on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @01:05PM (#4837849)
The point is that the employer wouldn't even have to ask the question. The data is now public.
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Re:Google connects Play Store with Google+, reviews will fea... by aggronn on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @01:00PM (#4837818)
Okay, thats one app. What about all the other innocuous apps you download?
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