| I concur. As much as it pains me to realize I'd lose the comfort of the title if someone pushed it. As a for instance; I'm a high friction actor in software implementations. I dig into the requirements, question the excessive ones, point out when implementations are starting to approach the macabre, and do my best to pressure companies away from being excessively intrusive in their data gathering or use of dark UX. I've been asked more than once just who it is I think I'm working for informally, and warned at least once via indirect threat that I'm treading on thin ice. While I'm not technically an Iron Ringer, I've always done my best to live up to the ideal in my practice. Without a PE for Software Engineering and the regulatory framework that comes with it though, for every one of practitioners like me who push to preserve the public's interest first, there are thousands pushing without a second thought to the consequences of what they are making. Every risk management data corpus, every shortcut taken around regulations, every expedient hack can only have a protest lodged against it, and a suggestion of an alternate implementation given before the inevitable bouncing up and ignoring of the advisement. In this type of environment, all one can do is puck their battles carefully until more steingent regulation gives one more leverage to bring to the table. |