  Organizations struggle to comply with legal requirements as well as customers
calls for better data protection. On the implementation level, incorporation of
privacy protections in products and services depends on the commitment of the
engineers who design them. We interviewed six senior engineers, who work for
globally leading IT corporations and research institutions to investigate their
motivation and ability to comply with privacy regulations. Our findings point
to a lack of perceived responsibility, control, autonomy, and frustrations with
interactions with the legal world. While we increasingly call on engineers to
go beyond functional requirements and be responsive to human values in our
increasingly technological society, we may be facing the dilemma of asking
engineers to live up to a challenge they are currently not ready to embrace.
