StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by blub on Monday April 30, 2018 @02:03AM (#16956160)

After more than a decade of privacy abuses from almost all companies, I am perfectly ok with the collateral damage to start-ups, apps and personal projects that this law will cause, as long as it stops the abuse.

Society doesn't owe entrepreneurs a business model, but it does owe people a dignified life and some control over information that can be used to harm them.

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by pdimitar on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:10PM (#16962383)

Finally somebody who makes a balanced commentary.

I fully agree and that's why yesterday I deleted 7 hobby projects -- all their databases and hosted apps, cancelled VPS subscriptions and never made any backups.

Never put ads, never put trackers, never sold anything to anyone. Hell, I just checked their VPS dashboard once a month, that was all.

Since I don't want to deal with the legal baggage I am doing my part in NOT contributing to the rampaging privacy abuses and simply destroyed anything goodwill that I created in the past that might have collected any shred of personal data.

Thus I am perfectly okay with my personal project being a collateral damage of the GDPR. I believe in the GDPR and want to see responsible private data usage.

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