Reminds me of the time I bought lunch at work, and a colleague told me exactly what I bought and how much I paid for it. I called him out and said it was a lucky guess, and then he proceeded to tell me my entire payment history for the past 2 days. Turns out when I was buying lunch, he was on the phone with a friend who worked at Paytm and that guy gave away my transaction history for shits and giggles. My trust in p…
Unfortunately, if you do that, you are going to be outcompeted by the teams that are working to get their first 10,000 paying customers by any means necessary, because privacy planning is less capital efficient.
The companies that do get big enough to overcome their immediate survival constraints often have a harder problem identifying and providing resource needs for privacy assurance because it's less on the minds of the people in charge of making resource decisions because you have other operational scaling issues at the front of mind.
Your engineers and support staff doing dumb things with your data is a risk you can have resources allocated to. But it's not on the critical path to market dominance so it shouldn't be expected to be a priority.