The recent resignation of a compliance director at GitLab Inc. illustrates anxiety in the tech industry about foreign espionage...GitLab’s vice president of engineering, Eric Johnson, said in GitLab’s public discussion forum in October that the firm would no longer hire people living in Russia and China—countries that U.S. authorities have linked to major data security breaches—for some roles where they would be handling sensitive customer data...
The decision was prompted by “the expressed concern of several enterprise customers,” Mr. Johnson wrote on the forum... more
