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You should quit. I know you have reasons, but continuing to work at a place like this is not ethical.
by anf 8y ago
You should quit. I know you have reasons, but continuing to work at a place like this is not ethical.
- inteleng 8y agoQuitting is also slightly unethical.
- struppi 8y agoQuitting is not unethical at all. You are not required to stay with any company.
- anf 8y agoIf you can prevent a company from acting unethically and you have the capacity to do so, are you not ethically obligated to try? (switching sides of argument, I know)
- anf 8y agofair point. my thoughts were that spending your time building $10 widgets and getting paid $5 by someone who is negligent with their use of people's passwords is akin to working for a company that pollutes public waters: some of your paycheck is "tainted" by the dangers you put others into, and you are smart enough to understand it. in that sense, quitting seems like a non-act, because you stop acting unethically. I'm guessing you're referring to someone's ability to actually fix it -- in the case of logs, you can make a pretty simple regex to strip out all kinds of PII, and there really are a lot of arguments (e.g. proactively reducing cost of security audits -- if someone is reviewing your logs to figure out what happened, they might not want to see customer data).
- Grangar 8y agoIf anything I'd vouch for leaking to a data protection watchdog if nothing gets done about it.