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  • Ethical consistency is more important than any job. Without this, one may become a Palantir engineer... completely lacking in morals and enabling real world evil.
    by burnt-resistor
  • I do not have enough pangram credits (free) to check the whole article, but running significant parts of it through, I am getting 100% AI generated.

    This is not an indictment - it is merely an observation. (to mimic gpt-style for a moment)

    by nissa-seru
  • There are two laws missing that allow such privacy violations to occur.

    First is strong and enforceable law that makes it unlawful to violate one's privacy. The second is to prosecute violators directly—that is, employees cannot hide behind corporate walls and allow the corporate entity to take the blame.

    Irrespective of what employers demand, employees have a responsibility to obey the law. Risk of individual employees being chucked in the slammer would change corporate culture overnight.

    Fining corporations alone is a waste of time, they see such fines as the cost of doing business, losing one's freedom for an individual is another matter altogether. Employees must be frightened of the consequences of violating the law or the practice will continue.

    by hilbert42
  • AT&T looking for more user data to leak to everyone? Already did the SSNs
    by radium3d
  • I have to say this sounds like an extremely believable form of shoddy PII stewardship.
    by tdeck
  • The apparent takeaway is that Apple devices on AT&T have reduced privacy.

    This may change, obviously. Likely for the worse.

    by chasil
  • This is why you should use open-source firmware where there is no registration and customer IDs. Also, the software should allow overwrite IMEI to a random value daily.

    > Boardman believed the meeting would finally address both issues.

    > Apple fired him the next day.

    This is a reminder that being honest with a company doesn't benefit you.

    by codedokode
  • This guy is going to lose. If a company is violating no laws and your manager tells you to drop it, you can either drop it or quit. You don't get to choose how to interpret company policy.
    by wmf

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