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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by closeparen on Sunday April 29, 2018 @09:43PM (#16955117)
Having engineers read and interpret regulation personally is not a remotely sane legal risk management strategy. Read the thing on your own time if you're curious, but the engineering work should start with specialized outside counsel/consultants and percolate down to engineers as company policy via the CTO.

You're onto something, though: in a corporate environment, the word "compliance" is a magic spell that disables all critical thinking skills within earshot.

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by civilitty on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:29AM (#16956013)
> You're onto something, though: in a corporate environment, the word "compliance" is a magic spell that disables all critical thinking skills within earshot.

Is that a bad thing? The vast majority of regulations exist because someone's "critical thinking" went too far in the name of profit.

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by closeparen on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:37AM (#16956818)
>The vast majority of regulations

Your mistake is assuming that the idea being sold internally under the heading "compliance" is required by, or even tangentially related to, an actual regulation.