Tunngle is shutting down tomorrow due the new GDPR

And yet as soon as I clicked on their brand in the navbar I was greeted by 10+ redirects and a shady ad for mobile games (probably including malware).<p>Good riddance, you will not be missed.

This sounds to me more like:<p>&quot;Abusing your data is vital for our business model and we will stop our operations before you have the right to request information how we use your data&quot;

Most startups simply don’t have the resources to figure out what to do to be compliant. I’m guessing that Facebook had a dozen lawyers working on this and even more engineers. This is only going to put up a barrier to startup creation and give large corporations more power.

I think there might be some pretty draconian side effects to properly implementing GDPR, but I&#x27;d like to hear from someone who knows to what extent these things might be true:<p>* The legal tracked information includes IP addresses, which means all logs must be able to selectively expunge IP address info.<p>* You can no longer have soft-deletes as a safety mechanism to maintain referential integrity if your data is (as is common) related to a user&#x2F;account as you are responsible for being able to expunge that data.<p>* There are no exemptions for first time visitors, which means you can&#x27;t just put up a no-EU unwelcome mat and serve up any third party tracking.<p>* The penalties are pretty draconian for a small business.<p>* It looks like retargeting businesses might be in trouble? Maybe?

GDPR issn&#x27;t that hard to achieve. You simply need to follow the rules and fill out some &quot;paperwork&quot;. If you are smart, you make your life easier with ISO27001 (don&#x27;t need to certify, but build upon it).

Goodbye, old friend.

RIP