[matthewmacleod]

“I don’t have time to label and expire all the food I prepare on top of serving meals to customers”

“I don’t have time to do all those structural calculations on top of all the properties I have to build”

“I don’t have time for all this silly human safety testing on top of all the drugs I have to develop”

Your statement is equivalent to the above. If you are unwilling to meet a relatively straightforward level or privacy and security for your users’ data, then personally I’m really glad that you’re going to prevent users from accessing it.

[orand]

Nice ridiculous examples. Now for some ridiculous examples on the other end of the spectrum:

"If you refuse to document every ingredient and possible allergic reaction when inviting friends over for dinner, then I'm really glad if you don't have any friends."

"If you don't create structural and safety calculations for your kids' tree fort, then I'm really glad when your kids fall out."

The point is, people need to be able to start small and then scale up if/when that makes sense. If everything has to start "big" (relatively speaking), then we will simply have fewer things, to the detriment of all.

[matthewmacleod]

Why are those examples ridiculous? They are all, like the GDPR, examples of regulation that says “demonstrate a basic level of care and attention when performing activities which may cause damage to users or customers”.

GDPR provisions are not onerous, are easy to follow, and are what we should expect every company handling personal data to already be doing.

[orand]

The original parent examples were side projects that make no money. So while it seems reasonable to expect this of companies, GDPR also applies to nonprofits, charities, things you create just for your friends, some random thing you put on the internet when you're 15 years old and have no clue about GDPR, etc.

[olliej]

If it makes no money why spend money on storage?

[dageshi]

Storage is cheap. Time is not.

[olliej]

Clearly it isn’t anymore.

Also realistically storage has never been cheap - it’s just that historically the only people for whom it was expensive were the users.

[nils-m-holm]

Ludic drive?