Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by magduf on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:23AM
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>Sure you can. You can lock up anyone who isn't willing to obey the law and continues to cause harm to your ex by sharing the photos, for example.
Actually, this isn't true, for the purposes of this analogy.
You can only lock up people who are in your country and under the control of your legal system. If your ex flees to Russia and sends out these photos from there, good luck prosecuting them and putting them in jail.
This is the internet we're talking about. An EU law doesn't apply outside the EU, in places like Russia, the US, China, and many other locales. What's the EU going to do when sites in those other countries refuse to take down pictures based on this EU law?
If anything, the anomaly here is that inappropriately using or sharing personal data about someone is in most cases still only a regulatory or at most civil matter and not a criminal offence. Obviously such an act can potentially cause far more harm to that individual than many physical acts of violence that do carry jail time.