> I'm disappointed that Jacky Rosen (D - Nevada) is a co-sponsor. She's a former software developer and should know better.
I don't know why you feel this way - IME software devs are the least likely to care about privacy.
Maybe they've been so acclimatized to being online all the time, or maybe it's because they feel that they aren't at risk.
In any event, the first people to throw away their privacy has always been software developers. Just look at how many of them use Chrome, for example. Or how many of their personal projects are tied to some proprietary tooling that, as a first action, grabs their data.
Most people would trade their mother for some shiny - that's why we have laws to protect from predatory behaviour. And software devs are just people, in the end.
Oh come on, I said I was "disappointed", not "outraged" or something more extreme.
But yes, I think that understanding helps, and Judge Alsup, whose programming background informed a sane ruling on copyright and APIs in Oracle vs. Google, is exhibit A.
I don't know why you feel this way - IME software devs are the least likely to care about privacy.
Maybe they've been so acclimatized to being online all the time, or maybe it's because they feel that they aren't at risk.
In any event, the first people to throw away their privacy has always been software developers. Just look at how many of them use Chrome, for example. Or how many of their personal projects are tied to some proprietary tooling that, as a first action, grabs their data.