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Re:Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email c... by pixl97 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @07:57AM (#19690307)
>what is your tipping point? Would you say no to that assignment?

When FB stops giving them a check.

At least that has been my experience watching programmers at other companies. Unless ethically bound by regulation and law, few people seem to have ethics.

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Re:Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email c... by swebs on Thursday April 18, 2019 @08:15AM (#19690416)
>few people seem to have ethics

Or maybe their set of ethics simply differs from yours. It is very subjective after all

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Re:Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email c... by devnonymous on Thursday April 18, 2019 @08:25AM (#19690464)
> It is very subjective after all

Methinks that was what the OP was asking -- what is the tipping point ? Having differing ethics is fine but one can't just lean on that as a crutch when one has none.

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Re:Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email c... by matz1 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @08:34AM (#19690505)
What tipping point? Maybe the engineer themselves who recommends the practice. Everyone have ethics but might be differ than you. As long as the practice meet their goal, from their perspective it works.
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