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I'm not sure many IT Engineers are professionals (as in members of a professional body that they have to answer to, with training, licensing and code of ethics

• FussyZeus 9y ago
  That I think is the real problem? I mean how many of us on this thread alone are pushing around troves of consumer data today? Maybe just browsing habits or analytics or what have you but nevertheless, here we are, handling possibly terrabytes of data on people we don't know, who don't know us, and have no current way to hold us accountable if we do it wrong and they are subsequently affected. I mean how many firms do we read about a DAY on here who are collecting by the truckload consumer data, either to be used or sold later? And how many of said firms are taking proper steps to anonymize or secure (or both) said data properly?
  • deadmetheny 9y ago
    Bingo. That's why so much of HN doesn't want to be held to the same standards as actual Professional Engineers - all the shady shit Google and Facebook and their ilk do is enabled because of the lack of personal accountability among the mercenaries who enable the giant surveillance apparatus to exist by implementing it. Then they come here and hand-wring over why privacy is dead or why it's really not so bad what they're doing over there, honest. The cognitive dissonance is palpable.
    • FussyZeus 9y ago
      Possibly a little more of a pessimistic view than I'd take personally, but I get what you're saying. Talking privacy and security is one thing, actually fighting for it in your own org is another.