I agree with you, and I was coming here to find similar thinking folks in the comment section and the most worrying thing is that I haven't found any except you. Most people seem to take it as a normal thing that software simply ruins lives and businesses. Todays developers' simply have no ethics. Also most developers seem to think that they can do whatever and they can get away with it, because y'know "Reasons". Sigh. :(
I really don't understand this sheeple thinking, for example most people simply don't understand that an automated fraud detection system is not a technologically important thing, it's an economically important cost management system effectively.
Just like companies externalize the cost of helpdesk personnel by operating an automated call center (and by proxy making the customer bear the cost), the goal is the same with fraud systems. But we cannot just simply throw our arms up in the air or shrug our shoulders when the companies leverage our lives this way.
Take Facebook for example, they acted like they had no responsibility or any power to review and take down or prevent toxic and/or hateful comments by employing human reviewers until they were forced to do so in some countries. And guess what, they had no trouble doing so, their profit might have reduced somewhat, but not that much.
So all in all, anyone who thinks he has integrity as a developer should take a look into himself when he justifies systems like fraud systems (or any other unnecessary cost reducing actions) as necessary. They are economically beneficial, yes; necessary, no.
I really don't understand this sheeple thinking, for example most people simply don't understand that an automated fraud detection system is not a technologically important thing, it's an economically important cost management system effectively.
Just like companies externalize the cost of helpdesk personnel by operating an automated call center (and by proxy making the customer bear the cost), the goal is the same with fraud systems. But we cannot just simply throw our arms up in the air or shrug our shoulders when the companies leverage our lives this way.
Take Facebook for example, they acted like they had no responsibility or any power to review and take down or prevent toxic and/or hateful comments by employing human reviewers until they were forced to do so in some countries. And guess what, they had no trouble doing so, their profit might have reduced somewhat, but not that much.
So all in all, anyone who thinks he has integrity as a developer should take a look into himself when he justifies systems like fraud systems (or any other unnecessary cost reducing actions) as necessary. They are economically beneficial, yes; necessary, no.