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nfoz on April 30, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

> It's virtually infeasible for any small company to adhere to, based on the decades worth of software that we've built the world's economy around.

Ah, that's exactly it. Decades worth of software irrevocably centred around tracking and analytics.

It would be glorious to see it all thrown in the fire. We can write software and protocols that don't spy on people. Let's get back to that.

lwansbrough on April 30, 2018 [–]

Cool, looking forward to the magical solutions people come up with for performing full text search on encrypted PII, lest you get sued for $10M for keeping someone's name in your database that they willingly handed over to you.

freeone3000 on April 30, 2018 | [–]

I mean, they won't be magical, but we have the resources, surely.

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