All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XII

[Labster]

I mentioned in the other thread that I didn't have to quit my job, but explanation thereof is most relevant in this thread.  My work added a new nondisclosure agreement for employees, which had an interesting clause.  Basically, upon termination of employment, they'd be allowed to look at any digital data I possess to ensure I didn't steal anything.  Now, because I'm lazy af, I'm technically the owner of Miraheze at this point, which means that I would be agreeing to grant access to my former-to-be employer to personally identifying information stored in the European Union, which would violate the GDPR and the Miraheze privacy policy but still be legal under U.S. law anyway.  And then, because I have voter registration data, that would also be disclosed.  If it was disclosed to a noncitizen it would be illegal, but otherwise it might be legal, but I would be required to report it to the California Secretary of State as a data breach anyway, and then the party and the employer and I could possibly be liable for fines.  So at this point the potential fines are starting to look larger than my salary, so I was worried I'd have to quit now for economic reasons.

So uh, anyway, I don't have to quit because I got them to strike that clause for me.  It's just like, the assumption that the only confidential data that you could hold must belong to the company.  Like seriously, what if I was married to a journalist?