I agree that if a nation-state breaks into your system with a 0-day exploit, that's very very different than leaving your S3 bucket set to public. I'm not sugg

I agree that if a nation-state breaks into your system with a 0-day exploit, that's very very different than leaving your S3 bucket set to public. I'm not suggesting that every data breach results in jail time, just like not every bridge collapse results in jail time either. There should be an investigation that determines the cause and whether that cause was foreseeable. The other engineering disciplines seem to have it adequately figured out, software isn't that different. I also don't think you should be facing life or anything, maybe something as small as a fine would work. Ultimately the data breaches will continue to happen as long as the personal incentives of the people building data systems aren't aligned with the users, and the GDPR does nothing to address that.