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by jmclnx
688 days ago
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>Why doesn't computer science take these issues more seriously? Simple, cost. A company is not going to approve any project to move to a new standard. Plus you have new hires coming it with their favorite "Standard of the Day" and start using that standard no matter what they are told. Management only care about the end result (ie: bottom line), now how it got there. |
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That lack of consideration for users' data will ultimately lead to regulation. Much of a user's data is only machine-readable, so ordinary users shouldn't be expected to know when their data is truncated after say data conversion. They aren't responsible for realizing their data is corrupted long after the event and past the point where it can be corrected.
It's like everything else, originally there's the Wild West days when everything's a free-for-all, but regulations eventually kick in after the harm done is considered unacceptable. We've seen regulations introduced everywhere else, from foods—pure food acts, pharmaceutical—FDA, transport—NTSB, Water purity standards and so on. So eventually computing/IT will be no exception.
Unfortunately, computing/IT is still in the 'Wild West' days. Personally, I can hardly wait for those enforced regulations to become effective.