We have had so many catastrophic breaches and leaks that I've lost count by now, from Equifax to AT&T to Lastpass. The consequences? at worst, the companies were forced to give people a 5$ credit or discounts and at best a few angry written articles.
Our elected representatives fail to serve the public and punish these corporations.
A few weeks ago, I wanted a walk-tracking app that would show me a map of where I'd been, the distance, not much else (maybe the time it took to walk it). Looks nice, download the first one I find... wants me to register and sign in. Why? This should all remain local on my iPhone. I think I went through 5 of them before I realized they were all junk. It's bad enough that I'd consider a monthly subscription (none were "it costs this much, once" up front), but the idea that I want them data-mining me trying to be a little less fat was absurd to the point of lunacy.
This was all thoroughly broken long before "vibe coding".
Mainly because after years and years (and hundreds and hundreds) of data leaks & breaches... every single person would be significantly better off by defaulting to not blindly trusting companies & applications with their data.
>Smaller developers building software benefits users assuming their data is protected
That assumption is simply incorrect. As has been proven literally thousands of times now.
Ideally, apps would be built to purposefully reduce the amount of data collected to the greatest amount possible (and only hold data for the shortest amount of time possible). Rather than now, where they collect as much data as possible, hold on to it forever, and then inevitably leak it.
You shouldn't be trusting your data with anyone, short of NASA, probably (and they won't be asking for it.)
Sure before there would be leaks that would break trust, but generally it seems most of the time the basics were taken care of and often those leaks were because of phishing employees or other means of getting the information vs really basic security issues. Not a hard rule obviously, but still.
Now we have seen time and time again that these vibe coded systems lack even the most basic security fundamentals. That will continue to erode trust.