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I wrote the privacy rule, enforced it, commented it, and shipped the leak anyway

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28TS ScoreImpact + Innovation, combined
IMPACT35
INNOVATION20

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A developer shipped a privacy leak in their workout tracker despite writing and enforcing a scrubbing policy because the security guarantees only covered data their code passed to the SDK, not data the SDK collected independently.

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ProgrammingOpen SourceTechnologyPublished Aug 23, 12:18 AM
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