Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ...
by vidarh on Saturday December 03, 2016 @08:15PM
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I'm not saying that in this specific case it's wrong to collect the data.
I'm saying that to "avoid evil" in the future it is insufficient for current developers to be ethical now.
You need to build systems that actively make it difficult, so that it takes persistence and intent to overcome if you want to do something bad whenever possible. Force people to face that they are putting in effort to bypass restrictions and breaking rules to do what they want to do, instead of "just" accessing data that are readily available to them, and far more will question the justification for requests they are given.
I'm saying that to "avoid evil" in the future it is insufficient for current developers to be ethical now.
You need to build systems that actively make it difficult, so that it takes persistence and intent to overcome if you want to do something bad whenever possible. Force people to face that they are putting in effort to bypass restrictions and breaking rules to do what they want to do, instead of "just" accessing data that are readily available to them, and far more will question the justification for requests they are given.