Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by matthewmacleod on Monday April 30, 2018 @12:49AM
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The attitude you have here is exactly the reason why GDPR is required.
Companies worldwide have consistently failed to safely store and process personal data. There are new data breaches every day. Irresponsible processing of data has a direct negative effect, and that’s not related to the idea that it’s misused for advert targeting.
Minimising the incompetence we’ve seen worldwide by treating it as “just some data collected while surfing” is baffling to me.
It’s a false dichotomy to compare the risk of DEATH from bad food safety to the annoyance of getting a targeted ad whilst enjoying an online newspaper article for which you didn’t have to pay.
Elevating data obtained while surfing the internet to the level of food safety or building codes is ridiculous.