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When your team faces ethical dilemmas about data collection and vulnerable populations

Our nonprofit team is building an app to help refugees access legal services but we're realizing our data collection practices could actually endanger the very people we're trying to help if governments get access to it. Everyone on the team has different risk tolerance and we can't agree on how much user data we actually need versus how much privacy protection we should build in.

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A group committed to helping others discovers their good intentions could cause harm through digital surveillance risks.

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