I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)

Re:I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018) by endgame on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:36PM (#24550585)

> The company they work for might get fined, but all the engineers see is the performance review. This system encourages engineers to think of compliance and morality as someone else's problem because: it is.

Didn't work so well for the VW guy: https://www.theregister.com/2017/08/25/vw_engineer_gets_3yrs...

> "if I don't do it, someone else will"

Maybe, but at the very least it raises the price for companies to buy unethical people.

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Re:I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018) by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @02:06AM (#24551400)

or lowers the cost because at least some ethics are the luxury of the well-off. (sure, worrying about feeding family might not lead you to kill someone but it might let you make it difficult for users to opt out of privacy invasion)

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