TSB Bank: Botched upgrade has left customers unable to access their accounts

This could involve going to the press, to a standards body in the country, to the government, to their union or industry representative body.

In the UK there are laws protecting whistleblowers who take actions like this.

As a PE, they can face significant legal repercussions for errors in work they approve.

The benefit to the PE is that many Civil Engineering projects are legally required to have a PE design/approve them. The PE literally has a physical stamp they use to stamp blueprints and designs when they approve it. Work won't proceed without that stamp.

So, if a PE refused to approve a bridge design, presumably it would be very difficult to find another PE who would approve it (especially given the record of the first PE rejecting the plans) and the work would not proceed.

If you pass, you get a stamp, which lets you approve drawings as a certified PE.

If you believe something is not designed to adequate standards, as a PE it is on you to not put your seal on the drawings. They can't build the bridge without an engineer doing this.

If you're taking about options when some other engineer has already approved the design, I'm not sure what the best course is. Maybe bring your concerns to the engineer in question and work from there.

Or if the design is fine but a contractor is cutting corners in construction and not building to the specifications, you could potentially engineer a new design to reinforce the problems, or you could make them take it out and build it right.

And I'm not even talking about Facebook, more about things like cloud bleed. How do you even try to regulate something like this? It's not like they intended it, but they still majorly screwed up.

In the specific case of TSB, I have my suspicions about the reasons for cutting corners in this migration, given: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/missed-deadlines-leave-1m...

Basically you can put money in your account into separately named isolated areas in your account that can't be spent using your card normally. In layman's terms as many saving accounts as you want with more flexibility.

You can still kind of use it as a prepaid card by just topping it up from your bank when you want. It's just better as you can now use Android Pay etc. and have proper banking functions like having an actual sort number/account number, direct debits, standing orders etc.