...but could you explain to a lame like me:
Dani Karuniawan wrote:
A long time ago, I worked for an A company. It was a well-known and legitimate establishment in the translation industry. It required me to install a cutting-edge software the company developed to handle its files. I did it. Along the project, I observed the application behavior. It stole my data and information and sent them to its server. Several months after completion of the project, a W company representative contacted me and revealed that the A company sold my information and data to her company.
What "information and data"? Something stolen from your computer? Or you're suggesting (not that I believed it) that Proz could have sent the posted jobs data to those crooks? Afaik that would be in breach with their own rules (reposting of offers is not allowed in most (all?) cases).
Another real story, Google notified me about abnormal internet traffics from my computer to reach Google Translate server without my concern. Responding the notification, I, then, monitored my traffic and found that a software from a reputable company used my internet connection and IP address to connect to Google Translate server and then sent the extracted data to the W company' server. I uninstalled the software and Google never contacted me again.
Why would that company use your connection and IP to use GT? This scenario I don't understand at all.... what "extracted data" would they then send to the other company...?
quite a downer for e.v.e.r.y. translator, not sure how the others could get along with that.)
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