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I keep seeing this sort of claim: > The law, combined with parasitic no-win-no-fee legal firms, puts website owners at risk of vindictive reporting. Young webs
by theptip 9y ago
I keep seeing this sort of claim:
> The law, combined with parasitic no-win-no-fee legal firms, puts website owners at risk of vindictive reporting. Young websites and non-profits cannot afford legal teams. Therefore the risk posed by GDPR is unacceptably high.
Perhaps there is a legal difference in the UK/EU that I'm missing, but surely you could be operating this business under a limited liability entity, in which case the worst-case situation is you get a GDPR lawsuit, and fold your entity at no personal cost.
In the best case, you don't get a GDPR lawsuit because i) it's actually not as bad as the FUD is making out, or ii) you get lucky. Either way, you didn't need to shut down your website.
If you can't/won't spend the money to set up a limited liability vehicle, that's a different matter entirely than you "cannot afford [a] legal team". The former is O($100), the latter is O($10k) or higher. So yes, a new barrier for hobbyists, but not in a different order of magnitude than server costs.