[verandaguy_alt]

Leaking corporate data or trade secrets to the general public is not the solution for a couple of reasons.

- Depending on the actual contents of the leak, people might panic; this is basically never useful.

- Depending on the outlet, the contents may get distorted before being published in order to fit some narrative -- potentially causing a panic. See above.

- You or the original leaker may be traced back using even editorialized data, or without the corporation seeing the data. This would land you and/or the original leaker in a lot of legal hot water.

- A side-effect of that is that you'd become unemployable in many cases, and you might find yourself running from the law in other cases.

So, yeah -- quitting facebook probably isn't a bad idea as a user. Refusing work as a contractor or an employee may be difficult, but because absolute morality doesn't exist, it's really up to the person in that position to make the call about quitting.

[stale2002]

Whistle blowing laws also exist, though.

So if they are doing something illegal, and therefore one is protected from prosecution, they should absolutely "leak" it to the authorities.

Doesnt matter if you are unemployable if you recieve millions in a whistle blowing reward from the government.

[verandaguy_alt]

Not all countries have whistleblowing protections, and even fewer will offer fiscal rewards for the act.

[stale2002]

But the US has them. And anyone who is working for a major tech company is "probably" working in the US and therefore covered by them.

And yes, the US offers rewards as well. Specifically, it is something like 10% of the monetary judgment against the company, in many cases.