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Yes, but… I’ve seen that it is often just shades of bad. There are so few morally pure companies out there- they are all willing to do bad things for money. Or the vast majority of them. And it is hard to evaluate that upfront. Even the most virtuous will bend privacy for the right stakeholders

I should go work for Google? Because they clearly value privacy?…

You say that as if we all started out fresh from college with the ability to pick and choose the kind of dev work we do. Not everybody has the kind of safety net starting out that implies the ability to do that.

you are right but then you should work to get to a point where you can and will do whatever you want..you can destroy a system 2 ways, within or create your own

yup if you are that talented enough where companies will continue to offer you $$ to program whatever they say, then yea you do have a lot of POWER and can say NO to whatever you want