StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by coldtea on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:59AM (#16956664)

>Look, it's not hard to encrypt all personally identifiable information; there are ready-made frameworks that let you choose which DB columns you encrypt and how. You can generate a key for each user on creation and have their data encrypted with it. The problem is NOT that. The problem is what happens if a legal firm or an agency targets you.

The problem is also not botching the encryption process -- and relying blindly on some "ready-made frameworks" is a sure-fire way to do that.

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by pdimitar on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:27PM (#16962567)

I'll immediately agree to that but in the spirit of the GDPR which allows you some screwups, isn't that still better than keeping non-encrypted personal data on a small VPS you have no idea if other people have no unlimited access to?

I shut down my hobby projects because I didn't want to rework them. Deleted everything, never sold info to anyone, never served ads and had exactly zero external JS snippets on them.

If I am to open a business, I'll however work a lot to be GDPR-compliant. I believe it was about damn time for something like that to emerge.

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