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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by ehsankia on Monday April 30, 2018 @02:25AM (#16956245)
Just like StreetLend, most likely nothing, and it's just a fear, but again you need to realize that this is a site run purely as a hobby. I'm sorry but reading through legalese and combing my website's code to make sure it's compliant isn't part of my hobby. I'm not a company, I don't have millions of users, I just run a small tool that a few people use. Yet apparently I run the risk of being fined $20m...
Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by salvar on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:22AM (#16956751)
If you think a hobby app runs a risk of being fined $20m then you clearly haven't looked into this at all. Why don't you do that first before getting worried about it?
Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by GordonS on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:01AM (#16956398)
There are lots of guides out there designed for humans.

Essentially, all you have to do is tell your users what data you are collecting and how you will use it.

Also, if a user asks for their data, you give it to them, and if a user asks for their data to be deleted, you delete it. I imagine if either of these things were to happen today, you would do as they wished GDPR or not.

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by closeparen on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:57AM (#16956926)
>There are lots of guides out there designed for humans.

It's not even remotely okay to use random people's blog posts as a compliance strategy.

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by outsideoflife on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:16AM (#16958293)
> There are lots of guides out there designed for humans.

> It's not even remotely okay to use random people's blog posts as a compliance strategy.

Then use the simple, human friendly guide from the body who will be enforcing it in the UK. I did. I thought it was simple.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by 2trill2spill on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:08AM (#16957828)
Its funny that your being downvoted, but using a random persons blog for legal compliance seems risky.
Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by joosters on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:00AM (#16956387)
You already had to comply with many other complex laws, like copyrights, trademarks and so on. I don’t see why a privacy law is anything different or special.
Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by closeparen on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:48AM (#16956890)
>many other complex laws

It takes 30 seconds to find out whether your identifier violates a trademark. Your content is trivially not a copyright violation if you created it yourself. Hobby projects are not debating the finer points of fair use and whether the conflicting name is for a sufficiently different kind of business to avoid confusion. But every HTTP server handles personal data, and a web-based tool with a database backend especially so, so all the subtlety of GDPR is in play.

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by outsideoflife on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:17AM (#16958307)
> But every HTTP server handles personal data

But not all of them have a good reason to log it. /dev/null

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by Karunamon on Monday April 30, 2018 @11:15AM (#16959263)
Hard disagree. Abuse prevention, performance metrics. Httpd logs are a basic and necessary tool.