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== Controversy ==

Sometimes the use of ''bug'' to describe the behavior of software is contentious due to perception. Some suggest that the term should be abandoned; replaced with ''defect'' or ''error'' contending that ''bug'' implies that the defect arose on its own and push to use ''defect'' or ''error'' instead since it more clearly connotesindicates they are caused by a human.<ref>{{cite journal

|publisher=[[Software Engineering Institute]]

|title=News at SEI September 1999

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|___location=[[Carnegie Mellon University]]

|url=https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/news-at-sei-september-1999}}</ref>{{fv|date=February 2025}}

Some contend that ''bug'' may be used to [[coverup]] an intentional design decision. In 2011, after receiving scrutiny from US Senator [[Al Franken]] for recording and storing users' locations in unencrypted files,<ref>{{cite journal