The corporate surveillance machine is killing people

A passionate condemnation of the corporate surveillance and adtech industry, prompted by a Vice report revealing that a US military unit conducting drone strikes purchased location data harvested from ordinary consumer apps. The author argues that developers who build surveillance software are morally complicit in the harms that data enables, including lethal targeting of individuals based on their religious identity and app usage. The post calls on programmers to take personal responsibility for what their code is used for.