[scottporad]

I would argue that devs only think about what their cultures encourage them to think about. These days developer cultures value "do more faster", so developers think about speed. Until that changes, privacy will be a second class citizen.

[dacort]

s/privacy/qa or your discipline of choice that is seen as "slowing down" development. While most devs should be thinking about this, you're correct in that their culture generally doesn't encourage them to.

[gingerlime]

whilst there some similarities between qa and privacy, in terms of technical debt/slowdowns, I don't think they are the same. Privacy is much more elusive, difficult to see any immediate value of, and subject to interpretation. QA can prove its value by finding real bugs that are usually harder to argue against.