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We have plenty of difficulty just following the Agile Manifesto.

The agile manifesto is far from a set of ethics that if you disagree with you can’t help but sound like the bad guy.

For example, try disagreeing with the statement “SWEs should take reasonable effort to protect user data”

That's article 32 of the GDPR. It also includes protection from social engineering.

In all honesty, I haven't checked if it's true, but you can use AI to find a foreign law that fits and cite it word for word.

AI can, and will, hallucinate legal cases and laws to make you happy. This happened pretty quickly after ChatGPT was introduced into the world: https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-f...

Of course it can. But it's more precise than Google and it's easy to fact check.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-32-gdpr/

Once you link the actual law, it becomes more of a checklist and less of a principle though.

No, it's just a bunch of counter-intuitive rules that if followed make life better for both the developers and their customers/bosses. (On most circumstances, not all.)

If the customers/bosses do not even allow those to be followed, what chance do you think some pro-social rules with actual costs have?

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