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As an expert it's your role and yours alone in society to ensure that you don't harm users, no matter how much money you miss out on because of it. In a better world there would be developer groups and unions that expel members for privacy breaches, but in abscence of these we're left with our morals to motivate us.
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@NEMESISprj Even if there were, such an organization could only consist of experts, be formed by experts, funded and sustained by experts and enacting its regulations on experts in the form of certifications or withdrawals thereof. No successful standards organization can rely on the support of governments and companies for its mere existence, only for projects that said governments and companies are incentivised to sustain.
A client literally just told us "I don't wanna be telling you what I want / require / need. I just want you to give me the best you got."
Like wtf.
The worst thing is they've got but loads of money so we really have to take them serious. They were born rich and probably had a servant as a child who did everything for them without them asking to, and they'll continue to get away with it because they'll continue to be rich and there'll be people like us trying to kiss their ass for some of that money. I hate myself for doing it. They want a system to basically spy on their customers, and I'm a huge advocate of privacy, but I'll still do it for the money. Fuck this world.
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