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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; contending that ''bug'' implies that the defect arose on its own and push to use ''defect'' or ''error'' instead since it more clearly indicates they are caused by a human.<ref>{{cite journalweb

|website=News at SEI

|publisher=[[Software Engineering Institute]]

|title=News at SEI September– 1999Bugs or Defects?

|date=SeptemberApril 1, 1999

|first=Watts S.

|journal=SEI Interactive

|last=Humphrey

|volume=2

|author-link=Watts Humphrey

|issue=3

|url=https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/documents/2648/1999_102_001_413932.pdf

|___location=[[Carnegie Mellon University]]

|at=page 73 of 154 in PDF file

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

|access-date=2025-02-02

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015130719/https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/documents/2648/1999_102_001_413932.pdf

|archive-date=2023-10-15

|url-status=live

|url=}} (linked from [https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/news-at-sei-september1999-archive/ News at SEI 1999}} Archive])</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