I don't know which software people you mean, but "software people" built and operate Google, Facebook and countless other smaller companies and apps that wipe t

I don't know which software people you mean, but "software people" built and operate Google, Facebook and countless other smaller companies and apps that wipe their asses with privacy. I don't see other people's privacy being a high priority in our industry, quite the contrary. We're complicit in creating a world of constant surveillance more than politicians and authorities are. And people who think violating privacy is consensual if you ticked the TOS checkbox and done for profit, but wrong if done by a democratically elected government and done for the public good (however misguided) are less concerned with ethics and more with political ideology. Programmers are not more ethical than other people, and definitely not when it comes to privacy. And we're not all libertarians and anarchists either. We're as conformist as fuck, hence the boring middle-class gentrification of places like SF when us techies come in. Let's stop pretending we're better than other people. We're the ones that are creating this mess, and those who have created this particular surveillance tech are not some evil outliers. We provide tech for money and wash our hands of the consequences, just like the weapons and drug dealers.