This article is a lot of confident statements that are just shy of florid, with only weak anecdotal support, often just a sentence or even a single clause. It feels like the author leaned almost entirely on an LLM to generate it. It’s so very disjointed and bland.
I imagine to do this they’ll be uploading and scanning all of your text messages.
Edit: I was wrong! They say they won’t.
This is a great point. I have another account on a smaller instance, and there I frequently just read everything in the local feed.
It is just dicey, because income can be related to racial factors. Poor areas in many cities are often overwhelmingly non-white. It’s something HR doesn’t want to touch with a ten-foot pole.
I’ve done a bit of hiring and this won’t pass the legal bar (even asking what town someone lives in can be evidence of intentionally trying to find out if the candidate is of “the right stock”), but I also rather like envisioning a comedy scene of someone trying to use toilets as a sneaky determinant 😆 Very Monty Python.
I’ll have you know it was a utility sink so it doesn’t count!! 🙃
That’s good to know. I don’t believe them, but at least they have not gone full-out with it.