[wsetchell]

Requiring every product team to go through a central human rights review seems like a bad idea.

Not only would it be expensive (new overhead for lots of product teams), it would be counter productive.

Today the product leaders are accountable for the impact of their decisions, since they are the only ones who are making them.

If there's a central decision committee, the product leaders would be able abdicate their responsibility since they didn't fully make the decision.

Over time incentives will cause the the product leaders to push for more risky decisions, committee to get less risky, and the whole company to slow down.

[philsnow]

Google had this, at least around 2010. Product teams would have to get the go-ahead from a bunch of interested parties like legal, security, internationalization, etc. Each of those parties controlled a "launch bit" (literally a checkbox) for each product launch.

[wsetchell]

Yeah I was there during that time too. Chasing down launchcal bits was really expensive.

[kinkrtyavimoodh]

It's still the same from what I understand from my Googler friends.

[chillacy]

Mat companies have security teams and security review through, as well as web accessibility and the like. It seems to help since without those teams most product groups pay very little attention to either.