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by OliverJones 3799 days ago
I know somebody who knows somebody :-) who did the following:

In a mad scramble to create some impromptu how-to instructions for a customer's users, the person made screenshots that revealed a bit of personal and confidential information.

The person doing that knew it was wrong at the time. This took place in a dodgy ethical milieu, where the customer's management refused to support the publication of high-quality how-to materials, and the customer's users were failing and flailing, and themselves emailing screenshots showing private data.

In my belief, this kind of breach of ethics is much more common than colossal systematic moral collapse. The trouble is this: It contributes to a morally slippery workplace.