StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
GDPR is not difficult to comply with and based on the decades of experience with the Data Protection Act on which it is based, the chances of being sued (or threatened with litigation) seem tiny indeed.<p>Also, I <i>think</i> the reason why this site cannot cope with GDPR run deeper than being willing to add a 'delete account' and 'download my data' functionality to a loss making site.<p>On the screenshots, it shows a prominent section on the home page: “StreetLend with Facebook friends (and their friends, and people they endorse)”<p>This suggests they are using the Facebook login to harvest from the Facebook social graph.<p>Head down that particular road and you are in a privacy shit show - and after Cambridge Analytica and GDPR my guess is that Facebook is cutting of this supply of data - or setting hurdles that streetlend cannot hit.<p>A few people were sued by the ICO for non compliance with the DPA - but it didn't open the floodgates of civil litigation.  To my mind (and I am in the processes of updating two small businesses to be compliant) it just sets good ethical standards and Google / FB etc are missing a trick in not just declaring this is the standard they will follow worldwide.