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Sigh, this seems to be another "we had no women on our team" situation. This was a question asked on Twitter before even trying the feature. People impacted by this issue know it's a possible problem. Twitter really should've done better here.

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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.

Why would you need women for that? Anyone could have told you that this was a bad thing.

How do you respond to the fact that development of the feature was led and announced by a woman?

But she's no true woman!

Admittedly, this reply is tongue-in-cheek because I'm amused at how positively bizarre this subthread is.

I mean I have to eat my hat for sure.

I should have not have just trusted the parent comment and just looked at how it worked. I wrongly assumed it was some account setting like “enable tips” and then it walks you through a PayPal setup and then suddenly millions of people are going to be unwittingly exposing their address to strangers potentially without knowing and with no alternative except to not accept payments. It’s literally just a way to add tip links to your profile which is way more benign.

To be fair, I thought it worked the way you described it too, and was aghast at how anyone could have thought this was a good idea, man or woman.

Please don't do this here.

Sorry, I explained myself more under the sibling's reply. The way I understood it seemed such a gross vulnerability that it should have sounded terrible to either gender, but apparently the actual feature is much more tame.

Women are much more likely to be aware of the pretty serious risk of somebody being able to easily attain your address. I think it's a fair statement

Based on what? Do you have any research or studies that support that statement?

4x more likely to be stalked, along with many other issues that go along with that.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/n...

If you'd like tho, you could happy refute that doesn't correlate with my initial statement if you so feel the need.

This was from a singular Google search in about 5 seconds, I'm sure there's much more statistics out there if you feel unsure.

Men don't want strangers to know their address either.

Because relatively it impacts non-men more. Anyone interested in privacy would point it out, but not everyone has incentives to think about privacy in every situation.

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