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Exactly this. Companies shutting down make it look like a bully GDPR made them do it but then HN commenters indicate that these companies primary business was s
by Boulth 8y ago
Exactly this. Companies shutting down make it look like a bully GDPR made them do it but then HN commenters indicate that these companies primary business was selling customer data:
> Streetlend made its money by selling your privacy data to advertisers through Amazon.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955709
- yehosef 8y agoThe founder claims this wasn't true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956549 AFAIK, slander is still a problem in some parts of the world.