Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:41AM (#32439380)

But I think anyone that handles PID should be held to account, as to what happens to that data. We have been doing a terrible job of that.

Many apps that I encounter, are pretty much bald-faced, unapologetic, data harvesters. That’s clearly their main purpose, and their stated purpose is really just the lure on an anglerfish.

“Move fast and break things” sounds good, until you realize that said “things” may be people’s lives.

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Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by drewcoo on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:12PM (#32440623)

Our profession has no code of ethics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_ethics

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Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by ghaff on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:25PM (#32440794)

I don't know why it's not in that article but, e.g. from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

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Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by rkangel on Friday August 12, 2022 @11:31AM (#32440070)

This is absolutely true, but it's a function of the business, not the individual engineer. It's not just about engineering at all - one of the biggest GDPR fines was to H&M for some internal data that managers were keeping on some employees.

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