zlacker

First off, thanks again for taking the time to speak with us on HN.

I think you’re missing/avoiding the issue that people might want to hide the very fact that they have a Triplebyte account at all. It implies that they have job hunted in the last 5 or so years, and someone who’s been at a single company for longer than that might not want that information to be available.

I work at Google, and I can tell you as a fact that our Privacy Working Groups would never let us launch something like this without explicit user consent.

>>yaacov+(OP)
Google did something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy

>>areyou+yl1
Google did something significantly worse -- and spent ages apologizing for it and never really recovered from the reputation hit, and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure.

>>areyou+yl1
Wow...

> Google Buzz publicly disclosed (on the user's Google profile) a list of the names of Gmail contacts that the user has most frequently emailed or chatted with.

Google Buzz is something you definitely don't want to be similar to.

>>seebs+Ao1
> and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure.

Absolutely.

Google+ became really nice towards the end, but HN kept hating it, and I guess partly because of Buzz.

>>areyou+yl1
The disaster that was Google Buzz has left a thick bureaucratic scar tissue designed to prevent something like that from happening again.

Here’s an old article about it: https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/google_privacy/i...

I suspect TripleByte is about to learn some similar lessons.