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The Senior Product Manager who wrote the post is a woman.


Let me clarify - I meant a class of issues usually described that way, but spelled out it's "members of the team have little direct or indirect contact with people impacted by higher privacy needs, who are quite often global or context-specific minorities or people commonly exposed to abuse that impacts them". I wish we had a unique name for it because it keeps repeating online, and is often shortened the way I commented, which is not entirely correct. (In that yes, women are not magic privacy issue detectors)


Literally everyone I've ever spoken to about privacy has been a man. What the hell are you talking about?


People seek privacy in different ways and for different reasons. One end of the spectrum is the privacy for everyone as an ideology. Somewhere else is for example immediate protection from an abusive (ex-)partner embedding spying software on your phone. If you haven't heard groups caring about the second case, maybe it's due to your usual contacts?


Indeed, the most vocal privacy advocates have always been the now ostracized bearded Unix loving male oppressors like Stallman.

The SJW types have always been quite ... flexible in these matters if a corporation waves with a wad of cash.




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