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no, GDPR does not have any effect on personal websites. Article 2 of GDPR defines the scope of the law. > This Regulation does not apply to the processing of

by simpss 7y ago

no, GDPR does not have any effect on personal websites. Article 2 of GDPR defines the scope of the law. > This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity

comboy 7y ago
If I had a website about programming and it had a forum part is it purely personal? What if is it just comment section? What if I had ads to cover server costs vs when I don't have them now? I closed the website because I don't know. And I don't think I would say I know until I hire a lawyer. Re analytics part from another comment, I only care how they interact with my website. Without sharing that info with anybody. You could avoid cookies if you really wanted to but then you actually collect more data about your visitors.
- arbitrage 7y ago
  What if aliens came down and probed your butt? You're throwing about ridiculously obscure edge cases that don't really matter to the point at hand.
  - comboy 7y ago
    It may not matter to you, for me it represents more than 10 years during which I've put thousands of hours into it. Apart from that, an internet forum doesn't seem like a ridiculously obscure edge case.
  - kbenson 7y ago
    A law that applies to large swatch of regular, benign behavior of people and makes it illegal is not a good law. If that benign behavior is not targeted and the law is used to good effect, it may be beneficial in the short term, and be useful, but it is not good, because it gives the state extra leverage against normal people that they can apply it unevenly. A decade from now, the state might target certain sites with forums that say things they don't approve of, and use these laws to do so. Is giving the state more tools to circumvent freedoms like freedom of speech due to technicalities a good thing? How about in stead of making a law that blankets many benign interactions and relying on enforcement of only actual problems be up to the opinion of the enforcers, we try to target the actual problem behavior as tightly as possible, and then identify the edges where problem behavior exists and pass new legislation to apply to that?

by simpss 7y ago

comboy 7y ago

If I had a website about programming and it had a forum part is it purely personal? What if is it just comment section? What if I had ads to cover server costs vs when I don't have them now? I closed the website because I don't know. And I don't think I would say I know until I hire a lawyer. Re analytics part from another comment, I only care how they interact with my website. Without sharing that info with anybody. You could avoid cookies if you really wanted to but then you actually collect more data about your visitors.

arbitrage 7y ago
What if aliens came down and probed your butt? You're throwing about ridiculously obscure edge cases that don't really matter to the point at hand.
- comboy 7y ago
  It may not matter to you, for me it represents more than 10 years during which I've put thousands of hours into it. Apart from that, an internet forum doesn't seem like a ridiculously obscure edge case.
- kbenson 7y ago
  A law that applies to large swatch of regular, benign behavior of people and makes it illegal is not a good law. If that benign behavior is not targeted and the law is used to good effect, it may be beneficial in the short term, and be useful, but it is not good, because it gives the state extra leverage against normal people that they can apply it unevenly. A decade from now, the state might target certain sites with forums that say things they don't approve of, and use these laws to do so. Is giving the state more tools to circumvent freedoms like freedom of speech due to technicalities a good thing? How about in stead of making a law that blankets many benign interactions and relying on enforcement of only actual problems be up to the opinion of the enforcers, we try to target the actual problem behavior as tightly as possible, and then identify the edges where problem behavior exists and pass new legislation to apply to that?