Sounds like there is a market for Glassdoor competitors that leverage self-sovereign identity and zero-knowledge proofs.
Such reviews are probably THE killer app for ZKP.
Such reviews are probably THE killer app for ZKP.
Workers in America are constantly trodden on. There’s no module to import here, the culture is bad and the laws are weak and more and more people are realizing it.
It should be legal, protected speech to speak ill of a company. They aren’t people, they’re not even really objects from a certain point of view.
If you ask me, there’s a different sort of “zero knowledge” problem happening here.
In New Zealand too, right? The company doing the suing is in New Zealand, not America, and the worker probably is too.
I'm sure workers are relatively trodden on everywhere, in various magnitudes.
Fixed it for you.
In some ways they have it better than people. All the rights but don’t get punished in a meaningful way when they do wrong.
I would love for a trustworthy Glassdoor-like source, but I think there isn't a business plan that justifies the cost of building the network that doesn't also have the end goal being selling out to the employers.
I'll illustrate with a personal anecdote, recently I was looking at levels.fyi negotiation service, and I thought to myself $1800 seems way over priced! but then it dawned on me, so long the EROI is > $1800 in better offers, then I might as well use it, right?
For what workers lack in individual power, they overwhelm in aggregate value, if a service could provide positive value on $10 a month to a lot of workers they could make bank. Would you pay $10 a month to
1. Have a better manager
2. Get paid a high percentage of your true maximal value
3. Avoid companies that require therapy during/after the fact
4. Increase your inter-company mobility reducing periods of unemployment
An ideal glassdoor should be able to provide this.
As I write this out I kind of realize this is kind of like a market solution to unions.
As an individual, I could post 1,000 bad reviews instead of just 1. As a competitor, I could do the same.
Glassdoor just wouldn't work if they couldn't verify someone's identity somehow.
If you have ZK verifiable credentials it would be rather hard to create all these identities and get them verified.
Crypto seems to be great when waving problems away, but no one seems to be able to give implementation details.
There are a bunch of authorities that proof you're a human already. They give you passport and the like. There is nothing prohibiting them from giving you a verifiable credential in addition of a passport.
Also, there are services that proof your humanity all over the internet. Letting them give out verifiable credentials and asking Glassdoor to accept them as trusted credential issuer is the easy part here.
Glassdoor can either check the signature of such a credential or, in the ZKP case, you proof them that you have such a credential without revealing it.
Getting people to adopt your thing is the hard part. The rest is just PKI, we know how to do PKI.
Except they don't do that today, at least in Glassdoor's biggest market (the US). And anyway, all you prove with a credential is that the person is holding a valid credential. You have no idea if it was stolen.
If you used social security numbers for this, for example, a single person could have posted millions of reviews on Glassdoor.
> Also, there are services that proof your humanity all over the internet.
Which ones? The only services that do this are the government and credit bureaus, so the digital services all have to tie in to one of those things. That means that someone is getting your real identity, which doesn't prevent the type of subpoena we're talking about in this case.
And on top of that, those identity checks can be anywhere from $1 to $20. There's no way Glassdoor would survive that.
The problems here aren't technical. These are legal issues. Issues with Glassdoor's business model.