Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by brohee on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:15AM
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> You can be 100% compliant and still be sued by somebody. And you'd have to pay some lawyer a lot of money to make it go away.
I fail to see how GDPR makes that new. You can be sued for any reasons already, being in the right or not.
E.g. 99% of useful websites violate some patents (that shouldn't ever have been issued), actual predatory suing about this issue happens, yet no one closes his website because "the patent situation makes it too uncertain".
Isn't that besides the point?
You can be 100% compliant and still be sued by somebody. And you'd have to pay some lawyer a lot of money to make it go away.
That risk already existed before the GDPR (anybody can sue anyone for whatever reason they can come up with), but GDPR is high profile enough to make people scared.
About a decade ago, I ran a website that made heavy use of user uploaded GPS data. I didn't sell any data. The only ad income was Adsense.
If I had bothered to restore the server from backups after a HD crash, I'd probably take it down now. Just not worth the potential trouble.