hmmmhmmhm

you do realize not ALL Russians side with their govt, right?

Just like not all Ukrainians were slaughtering Polish people in most barbarian ways, icluding newborns and pregnant woman in Wołyń

yep... I keep telling my dearests, that they should never continue phone conversation if the topic is making them feel threttened (directly or indirectly). Still, even in my close circles I hear stories of people being scammed through silly stories from 'your parcell will not arrive unless you pay >>small amount<< online' to 'your son needs urgent help, send him money online'... I sometimes contemplate whether there is a hook scammers would catch me on..

I wonder, is there a precedence of applicant dragging the company to court over their response to such request?

My experience is that most of my time goes to writing cover letter (I should probably copy-paste, but instead I always reflect 'why I'm doing this' and write proper letter), never had to spend 30 minutes entering my details...

I feel the biggest blunder would be when applicant gets a take-home, spends some time on it and then there is no answer. Though I never experienced that myself. I never ghosted a candidate when I was on the other side of hiring table, but I was always finding it draining my energy to write the 'no' responses

Maybe official 'name and blame' service where anybody could post their experience under their real name?

If you make such request, how can you enforce to get all of the comms? I'm curious, would some government institution step in and audit their mail servers, slack channels, google hangouts and all other channels to obtain all of the information?