A lot of people here: please CHILL. You make me look like a histeric. Not what I had in mind.
- I don't want to become a semi-lawyer or hire a lawyer until absolutely necessary.
- I had 7 hobby projects where people could fill out full names if they wanted to.
- I deleted all of them -- apps and database -- without backing them up. Never served ads or trackers, never had a 3rd party JS on any of them. Unless somebody had unfettered access to the VPS-es without me knowing it, I never leaked personal info.
It's a very simple cost calculation: I don't even want to invest 2 hours in reading the GDPR in details nor do I want to rework the hobby projects to encrypt the personal data in the DBs, hence I refuse to be a part of the abusing privacy problem and delete anything that might have gathered any personal data. I believe in the GDPR and this was my way to at least not contribute to the problem.
Seriously, what's so unclear? You can repeat to me that "knowing laws and protecting from bogus lawsuits is a fact of life" but it doesn't have to be before I have a business -- which I don't. So I still respectfully disagree that I have to learn legalese today.
So seriously, don't get so worked up over a comment that expresses a sentiment that I want to become more law-aware only when absolutely necessary and not a minute before that.
A lot of people here: please CHILL. You make me look like a histeric. Not what I had in mind.
- I don't want to become a semi-lawyer or hire a lawyer until absolutely necessary.
- I had 7 hobby projects where people could fill out full names if they wanted to.
- I deleted all of them -- apps and database -- without backing them up. Never served ads or trackers, never had a 3rd party JS on any of them. Unless somebody had unfettered access to the VPS-es without me knowing it, I never leaked personal info.
It's a very simple cost calculation: I don't even want to invest 2 hours in reading the GDPR in details nor do I want to rework the hobby projects to encrypt the personal data in the DBs, hence I refuse to be a part of the abusing privacy problem and delete anything that might have gathered any personal data. I believe in the GDPR and this was my way to at least not contribute to the problem.
Seriously, what's so unclear? You can repeat to me that "knowing laws and protecting from bogus lawsuits is a fact of life" but it doesn't have to be before I have a business -- which I don't. So I still respectfully disagree that I have to learn legalese today.
So seriously, don't get so worked up over a comment that expresses a sentiment that I want to become more law-aware only when absolutely necessary and not a minute before that.
Geez.