Would an engineer for a company that makes billions invading people's privacy really lie? </s> It's also possible it's used for other things said engineer does

Would an engineer for a company that makes billions invading people's privacy really lie? </s> It's also possible it's used for other things said engineer doesn't know about via scope creep or as another channel of PRISM et al, in which case those people will be thanking the engineer who added the feature.