takenpilot

To answer your question, basically not at all. Half a year before the layoffs, they explicitly consolidated power towards your direct managers around the assignment of work and especially quarterly and yearly assessment.

Not just toward managers in general -- before that point there was a consolidation of power towards managers in general over the years, but luckily a group of manager's peers would balance out or question any extreme examples, which moderated a lot of what can sometimes go wrong.

But right before the layoffs the system was changed to have an explicit emphasis on your direct manager.

These shit-tests reveal things. When one side has power over the other, some things aren't meant to the tested unless you want to consistently discover how little people care about the folk that have very little impact over their lives.

Neat!

You mean imprison or kidnap. Large companies can stop you from using their ecosystems or entering their property for almost any reason they like.

But it's the direction the industry is moving in.

Just to make the rules easier to enforce, it's sometimes easier to show you have resident status somewhere else. I had much bigger issues with the fact that land ownership / house ownership / bank account laws care a lot about non-resident-ownership.

I'm looking at Northern Europe (good privacy laws) or Singapore (the rules are draconian, but very clear).

That is, if someone has some well-known image on their phone, then it can find it, but anything taken themselves is safe?

Doesn't that make this a bit pointless since I don't know anyone that saves images from the internet to their phone. That's weird, right?

It's only when you're transferring them back to dollars/yuan/yen/etc. that it's suddenly currency from a government.