StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by riffraff on Monday April 30, 2018 @02:07AM (#16956172)

presumably you have laws that require street vehicles have a valid license before they can go on the road. Do you remember the police arresting someone because of a toy car they built?

If not, then why do you expect the EU to go after the equivalent site with a few thousand users?

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by mdpopescu on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:17AM (#16956464)

> Do you remember the police arresting someone because of a toy car they built?

Does this apply? [1]

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/07/21/five-year-old-fine-lemonade-st...

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by riffraff on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:20AM (#16956481)

since

* the fine has been cancelled and the council has apologised

* this is such a rare occurrence to be worth news reports

I'm going to say it validates the point.

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by mdpopescu on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:39AM (#16956567)

Sure. Going back to your question

> why do you expect the EU to go after the equivalent site with a few thousand users

You are saying that they DO that, but then will (probably) apologize afterwards. Some website owners consider that an unacceptable risk.

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by ehsankia on Monday April 30, 2018 @02:30AM (#16956263)

Logically, it's very unlikely. Realistically, seeing the risk of a $20m fine, I sure as hell won't take the chance and will take down my site until the dust settles and the kinks gets ironed out.

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