To software engineers who worked on stuff like this: how do you sleep at night? To PMs/leaders who push to include these listening SDKs in your apps: do you ever worry about vigilante justice?
People/society is like that, people do this for $$$
Probably, for $$, or even for $.
But other people sell it then for $$$.
Their salary is getting paid. Decent chance these days most of them work in India.
> To PMs/leaders who push to include these listening SDKs in your apps: do you ever worry about vigilante justice?
That smells like almost a flaggable threat. Very "won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest" kinda vibes.
Also, haven't we figured out that we need to stop making societal problems a question of individual average-person morals? We're never going to recycle our way out of global warming, and we can't rely on all the software engineers in the world to down tools to prevent these kinds of business models. We need to start passing laws against this kind of shit (and, yes, we need hold the individuals that we elect to power to higher moral standards).