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I’m a software engineer. I know what a
TODOis.My point is that privacy should have been a core design consideration, not something you factor in and handle later as a secondary concern. Put another way: the initial problem thesis that they wrote a proposal to solve should have included the idea of user privacy as a core element.
It’s a matter of incorrectly prioritized design goals that yield something which has very obvious potential to be actively harmful to users.