There are probably some exposure-based biases at play here. Developers deal with privacy every day as a matter of their hobby/profession. Salience leads them to see privacy issues everywhere and pervasive incentives for antagonistic actors even when, given the billions of data transactions occurring across the untold millions of applications and servers, they are statistically rare. The less inclined technologically only hear about the big events and such issues quickly fade from their memory, especially when they don’t truly understand the scope or details of the problem, and therefore tend to feel like nothing bad can happen to them. Data leaks, fraud and identify theft are things that happen to _other people_, and they can trade in their data casually and carefree.
