Really depends on the mess up. You mess up and leak confidential info to an ex-boyfriend? Well, here you are contributing to the stats of women killed by their partners.
If software didn't have strong real-world implications the entire software market would have been just a subset of the gaming market.
I'm not a regulations fan but for me, it feels simply like something obvious materializing.
I think it's important to look at how many programs fall to risks like that. Where is the cutoff where we regulate the whole industry due to a very very small possibility of issue?
Food safety, for instance, can affect everyone because bacteria can be anywhere and a lapse in safety practices has a high chance of public sickness.
I do think some software should be regulated more than it is. Is GDPR the answer? I don't feel so.
Not all software is regulated, no one cares about your program you make at home, run or distribute as long as it doesn't do some specific stuff.
Make a calculator App and GDPR doesn't care. Make a calculator App that collects financial info and personal info and sends that info somewhere, then GDPR cares.
If software didn't have strong real-world implications the entire software market would have been just a subset of the gaming market.
I'm not a regulations fan but for me, it feels simply like something obvious materializing.