As far as I know, the project actually got canned. Jack genuinely didn’t like it.
I don’t know if this mindset will hold true with the new owner of Twitter though. I would assume Elon will do far worse things with the data.
I wound up meeting with a Director who came in huffing and puffing.
The Director said “We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”
With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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so u know how sometimes you’ll have one actively abusive parent and one who doesn’t stop the abuse but slips u a treat while ur crying in ur room and calls it a day? that’s the two party structure of the united states