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To software engineers who worked on stuff like this: how do you sleep at night? To PMs/leaders who push to include these listening SDKs in your apps: do you eve
by dmitrygr 3y ago
To software engineers who worked on stuff like this: how do you sleep at night? To PMs/leaders who push to include these listening SDKs in your apps: do you ever worry about vigilante justice?
- kylehotchkiss 3y agoOne team is told they're building software to help students record their classes on automated basis (based on time/location). Another team repurposes that code into an API that can be added to random mobile games for chatting with other players. Nobody really ever knows where their code is ending up, and nobody ever directly built the functionality knowing its intended purpose.
- 777search 3y agoI do not think this is really true. At some point you know what's happening. At least partially. People/society is like that, people do this for $$$
- zx8080 3y ago> people do this for $$$ Probably, for $$, or even for $. But other people sell it then for $$$.
- cooljacob204 3y agoThe other team would be the one the OP is questioning.
- lamontcg 3y ago> To software engineers who worked on stuff like this: how do you sleep at night? Their salary is getting paid. Decent chance these days most of them work in India. > To PMs/leaders who push to include these listening SDKs in your apps: do you ever worry about vigilante justice? That smells like almost a flaggable threat. Very "won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest" kinda vibes. Also, haven't we figured out that we need to stop making societal problems a question of individual average-person morals? We're never going to recycle our way out of global warming, and we can't rely on all the software engineers in the world to down tools to prevent these kinds of business models. We need to start passing laws against this kind of shit (and, yes, we need hold the individuals that we elect to power to higher moral standards).