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Judgment & ambiguity · When to escalate

A stakeholder asks you to ship a feature that quietly collects user location data in a way you think crosses a privacy line, but legal signed off on an earlier, narrower version. Do you build it, push back, or escalate?

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I don't quietly build it, and I don't just refuse either — I escalate, because the moment my private judgment is that we're crossing a privacy line, this stopped being an engineeri…

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