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Perhaps because no matter how prominent you or the company you work for is, there are 1000s of other IT workers who are less scrupulous, less conscious, and mor
by imdsm 10y ago
Perhaps because no matter how prominent you or the company you work for is, there are 1000s of other IT workers who are less scrupulous, less conscious, and more motivated by money than you are. And they would do it.
That being said, who is to say that it would be those people who were asked to do it? Most unlikely. It'd be the grey people, those you don't even know about. Those already doing it.
And finally, it's already done, isn't it? Facebook, Google, et al. I've worked for small companies before that are able to identify demographics of users right down to their likes, dislikes, and ages, even without submitting that information.
You think there isn't already swathes of Island-centric data out there?
- kevinburke 10y agoThis is a really fatalistic and deterministic argument. The tragedy of the Holocaust is that so many people went along with it. In many other scenarios around the world people haven't gone along with unethical requests and things stopped far short of there. People have agency. The whole point of the pledge is to make people aware that their colleagues aren't going along, and maybe send a signal to management about what employees will and won't accept. Hopefully others who haven't signed the pledge will have a clearer idea about what their colleagues think is unethical.
- idlewords 10y agoIt takes a long time to train up a new employee to effectiveness in a company like Google or Facebook, even if the hiring pool is limitless (which I dispute). Employees acting in concert at those companies are a powerful point of leverage.