Uh oh. I'm all for cutting the red tape, but (in my opinion) the GDPR is: 1) easy to comply with if you're not doing nasty stuff with people's data, 2) actually needed.
You're on a forum supported by a startup accellerator for entrepreneurs who want to get stuff up and running with as little friction as possible. It's fairly obvious that Sinclair's quote would ring true here.
Smaller entities should still be required to fix/delete your personal data on request, imho.
I'd also appreciate if the exception was conditional on not selling any data or using it for external advertising (i.e. "you might also like" suggestions would be okay, as long as they're part of the same service)
It's easy as long as you're a corporation. It's onerous for a human person. Like the EU's excellent Digital Markets Act, GDPR should be altered to only apply to corporations. It'd be better if like the DMA it only applied to very large corporations, but just corporations is still way better than the status quo.
It's also easy if you simply stop trying to track users and only store the most necessary data. Like, no one ever seem to consider this.
Meanwhile, this same community a few days back were discussing the idea of trying to abolish advertisement. That's truly bluesky thinking if we're still justifying user tracking in 2025.
I shut down a couple of my websites that provided a service for free (streetlend.com and cointouch.com) because the GDPR was too ambiguous for me to be 100% sure I complied with - and in the past online I have encountered vexatious people who have to tried to damage my reputation. On one of my other websites, those people used GDPR privileges (eg making vexatious SAR requests) simply to make my life more difficult.
At the end of the day, I create helpful and fun websites for free in my spare time because I enjoy it.
EU regulation created jeopardy and friction that meant I couldn't justify doing this anymore.
johnnyanmac|10 months ago
DarkWiiPlayer|10 months ago
I'd also appreciate if the exception was conditional on not selling any data or using it for external advertising (i.e. "you might also like" suggestions would be okay, as long as they're part of the same service)
superkuh|10 months ago
johnnyanmac|10 months ago
Meanwhile, this same community a few days back were discussing the idea of trying to abolish advertisement. That's truly bluesky thinking if we're still justifying user tracking in 2025.
cbeach|10 months ago
At the end of the day, I create helpful and fun websites for free in my spare time because I enjoy it.
EU regulation created jeopardy and friction that meant I couldn't justify doing this anymore.