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And legal/ compliance, too
Legal getting in the way of engineering is usually a very good thing.
software engineer in a medium-large public tech company, i agree. i can’t even imagine the amount of stress the legal team must be under to constantly be discovering what management and engineering have messed up this time…and discover the problem is 6 months old and if a regulator catches wind of it it’ll be painful.
I was actually thinking about the goal of those laws, protecting society from unbridled capitalist tech companies. The fear of regulators is only an intermediate tool.
i personally see them as different tools of the same end goal - wealth generation in a checked and sustainable manner. capitalist environments inspire innovation, but require boundaries set (regulators) and a political environment which is alert and aware of exploitation and can make the calls about what is or is not acceptable.
Constant minefield and multi-shift alliances.
I lead web applications.
Last year, I + legal team was in a war with ad team because they were whining about tracking during the CCPA rollout.
This year, it's me + ad vs legal team over them wanting to slap compliance notices everywhere that affects user experience.