You can be paid for the task and keep quiet, or be paid for the same task and still complain online about it. You don't have to be aligned with the company that

You can be paid for the task and keep quiet, or be paid for the same task and still complain online about it. You don't have to be aligned with the company that employs you, and a lot of workers aren't. Often what happens is that someone (hopefully you) will raise the issue internally, but if the company decided to ignore regulations and take the risk of legal punishment, well it's not an engineer that will be able to stop it from being implemented. Hopefully such fines will make product owners and upper management consider the problem more seriously, but I wouldn't bet on it.