> The one working at Apple was able to check their spouse's spending trend on App store
You obviously could back this hearsay up with actual evidence I assume?
You obviously could back this hearsay up with actual evidence I assume?
Like, sure it is hearsay, but what do you want from the guy? Most of us are sharing anecdotes that we hope we be helpful to other HNers, most of the time. If anything, I think a lot of people look to the experience of other users here as the advantage.
If I tell you that while working at unnamed multi-national finance company we wrote software used for what I would consider incredibly immoral, but not illegal (in the US) purposes, I don't have any right to be believed, but I also expect most people would believe me, because they know how these things go in real life, oftentimes in their own organizations.
The only time these rules might be able to be 'broken' is to get data to fix bugs with the person's consent.