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Which is exactly why companies don't care, which is why this regulation was made and those fines decided.
> Usually in software engineering you don't get your company fined for making terrible mistakes unless you're in a field like finance.
You're not fined for a mistake, you're fined for a mistake AND that mistake huer the customer more than you AND you don't disclose it swiflty to him.
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Which is exactly why companies don't care, which is why this regulation was made and those fines decided.
> Usually in software engineering you don't get your company fined for making terrible mistakes unless you're in a field like finance.
You're not fined for a mistake, you're fined for a mistake AND that mistake huer the customer more than you AND you don't disclose it swiflty to him.