Well, as a lead architect ethics is just another part of the big equation that ties everything together. And putting down your foot is basically a daily activity just to keep everyone at bay and prevent zealous stakeholders from turning your product into a monstrosity. Having said that I feel that GDPR has been a particular difficult topic for most of my clients. I've had a lot of difficult meetings around this topic, where both the other party and myself have taken different stands on the topic. On the one hand you want to be fully compliant, treat your user's privacy with the utmost respect and just be a good boy. On the other hand we live in a world where doing all of that will result in a tremendous loss of revenue and your client's clients turning over to the competitor (who of course is Evil, didn't comply and is raking in all the money). Big companies cough Facebook cough Google ahem who I think should act more like a role model, have done the exact opposite in the past, which hasn't helped smaller businesses to take this topic seriously.
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Well, as a lead architect ethics is just another part of the big equation that ties everything together. And putting down your foot is basically a daily activity just to keep everyone at bay and prevent zealous stakeholders from turning your product into a monstrosity. Having said that I feel that GDPR has been a particular difficult topic for most of my clients. I've had a lot of difficult meetings around this topic, where both the other party and myself have taken different stands on the topic. On the one hand you want to be fully compliant, treat your user's privacy with the utmost respect and just be a good boy. On the other hand we live in a world where doing all of that will result in a tremendous loss of revenue and your client's clients turning over to the competitor (who of course is Evil, didn't comply and is raking in all the money). Big companies cough Facebook cough Google ahem who I think should act more like a role model, have done the exact opposite in the past, which hasn't helped smaller businesses to take this topic seriously.