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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by ryandrake on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:38AM (#16956043)
There were "legal matters" on the Internet before the GDPR. These scary rogue legal firms can already target you if they want, without the GDPR. Yet plenty of law abiding small Internet businesses existed yesterday and will continue to exist tomorrow.

I don't currently run a business online, but if I were, honestly I'd be more worried about the usual headaches like accepting payments legally, dealing with spam/fraud/abuse, finding product/market fit, etc. GDPR would be somewhere around 500th on my list of "start-up things that give me crippling anxiety."

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by JorgeGT on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:23AM (#16957049)
This is why I don't get all the hysteria and all the "block all EU IPs!" comments of people in this thread. For years, there have been 28 different data protection laws in the EU that you could be sued with. Now there will be a harmonized one.

So from getting sued 28 times with 28 different laws you have reduced your risk to being sued with just 1. Now, in order to have an online business in the EU you just need to comply with 1 data protection law instead of with 28. How is this bad?

What I suspect is that many people were just not aware of the 28 previous data protection laws that they needed to comply with, at all, and are now realizing that these laws exist.

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by pdimitar on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:30PM (#16962589)
I don't see how your points and mine conflict. They don't, IMO.

GDPR simply made me aware that I am not willing to go the extra mile for hobby projects so I shut them down and never sold any info to anyone, nor have I served ads/trackers.

Many commenters of my sub-thread here are making me look like a histeric and that's seriously annoying. It's all about deciding if a cost is worth it and I figured in my case it wasn't. Why make it more complex than that?

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