♻️ Reblog of
Cory Doctorow's linkblog (pluralistic@mamot.fr)
When George Hayward was as Facebook data-scientist, his bosses ordered him to run a #NegativeTest, updating Messenger to deliberately drain users' batteries, in order to determine how power-hungry various parts of the apps were. Hayward refused, and FB fired him, and he sued:
https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/facebook-fires-worker-who-refused-to-do-negative-testing-awsuit/
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/#drained
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