<story><title>How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/gdpr-for-web-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>No. Professionals in engineering or the trades have to know the regulations that govern their industry and abide by them.&lt;p&gt;What many SVers call &amp;quot;innovation&amp;quot;, other industries would call &amp;quot;reckless&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;How embarrassing for us!&lt;p&gt;EDIT: In terms of regulation, we&amp;#x27;re practically chiropractors.</text></item><item><author>aeorgnoieang</author><text>I thought that was needlessly snarky. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure other fields rely on lawyers to know the relevant legal landscape just like we do.</text></item><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>&amp;gt;GDPR will require developers to know the legal and policy landscape of their profession. (This has been the norm for other fields for centuries: how embarrassing for us.)&lt;p&gt;Favourite takeaway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbov</author><text>The comparison is disingenuous.  The internet makes anything you build automatically global.  You&amp;#x27;re blasting software engineers for not knowing worldwide regulations.  How many New York lawyers know the regulations of France?  How many local UK construction companies know the building codes of Japan?  None.&lt;p&gt;Knowing all regulations in the world for any given industry would be a full time job.  The people you seem to be implying exist do not exist.</text></comment>
<story><title>How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/gdpr-for-web-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>No. Professionals in engineering or the trades have to know the regulations that govern their industry and abide by them.&lt;p&gt;What many SVers call &amp;quot;innovation&amp;quot;, other industries would call &amp;quot;reckless&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;How embarrassing for us!&lt;p&gt;EDIT: In terms of regulation, we&amp;#x27;re practically chiropractors.</text></item><item><author>aeorgnoieang</author><text>I thought that was needlessly snarky. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure other fields rely on lawyers to know the relevant legal landscape just like we do.</text></item><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>&amp;gt;GDPR will require developers to know the legal and policy landscape of their profession. (This has been the norm for other fields for centuries: how embarrassing for us.)&lt;p&gt;Favourite takeaway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&amp;gt; No. Professionals in engineering or the trades have to know the regulations that govern their industry and abide by them.&lt;p&gt;Eh, not substantially or consistently more than in software. It&amp;#x27;s possible to cherry-pick examples where engineers in other fields are more aware of relevant regulations, but overall, it&amp;#x27;s roughly comparable.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m generally very critical of the move-fast-and-break-things mentality, but engineers in other fields are generally not more knowledgeable about industry regulations than software engineers are.</text></comment>