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(Ars will only refer to Monica by her first name so that she can speak freely about her experience using Glassdoor to review employers.)

Although it’s common for many online users to link services at sign-up to Facebook or Gmail accounts to verify identity and streamline logins, for years, Glassdoor has notably allowed users to sign up for its service anonymously.

The EFF regularly defends Glassdoor users from being unmasked by retaliating employers.

She decided to go through with a data erasure request, which Glassdoor estimated could take up to 30 days.

In the meantime, her name remained on her profile, where it wasn’t publicly available to employers but it could be used to link her to job reviews if Glassdoor introduced a bug in an update or data was ever breached, she feared.

“No one has the ability to see your user profile and the contents within it, meaning no one, including your employer, will be able to see your details,” Glassdoor’s employee wrote.

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