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After bans from Apple and Google, Sarahah debuts Enoff, an iOS app for anonymous feedback at work
Sarahah, the anonymous messaging app founded in Saudi Arabia that became an unexpected viral sensation with teens, clocking up over 300 million registered users before getting banned by Apple and Google over bullying, is making a return to the App Store — but not as you might think.
The startup has launched a new, free iOS app called Enoff (pronounced "enough") aimed at organizations, tapping into the wave of employee activism and speaking out about unfair practices to provide a way for people in a team to give anonymous, one-way feedback to bosses and human resources reps. An Android version of Enoff is coming "very soon," according to CEO and founder Zain al-Alabdin Tawfiq.
Available also on the web, the aim is to provide a way to give feedback in cases of harassment, corruption and other tricky workplace situations where employees might fear repercussions for speaking out.
Easy way to monetize app: allow bosses to pay to unmask users.
Also at Wired.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Saturday February 02 2019, @02:39PM (2 children)
Minihowto: send anonymous threats er.. feedback using a smartphone:
1. find used IP68 hardened phone
2. tie tightly scrap of paper with feedback to phone
3. launch phone through the windows of the target's sleeping quarters
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @12:00AM (1 child)
What if the target's sleeping quarters are running linux or BSD?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday February 04 2019, @10:24AM
Then he's a friend and you shouldn't be bothering him/her/it
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