Ship Your Enemies GDPR

@gorkemcetin I think the point of it is to show how unhealthy the current laws are.

@nemosaurus I believe there are numerous ways to show how unhealthy the current laws may be, rather than harming your "enemy".

@gorkemcetin I mean, if the law is abusive in nature, and the person thinks it should be gone, what is a better way to prove it than by demonstrating how abusive they are with a proof of concept app like the one the OP has created?

@gorkemcetin you're basically arguing for censorship - which is the way that the internet is heading nowadays anyway. This is the #1 product of the day, it shows that people want it on the site. Just because something doesn't fit your views, doesn't mean it should be removed from anywhere. Free speech should be allowed and democracy allows people to vote on what they want to see/do not want.

@_jacksmith This application is abusive and harmful to others, period. It is harmful to others regardless of the fact that it is #1. Would your thoughts change if it were #10? If you think people are okey to see apps doing harm than good on this platform, I don't have any further comments - but doing harm & being abusive shouldn't be confused with free speech.

@gregjwww makes a good point though.

@shoaibalich or it shows that people like it and agree with the cause that it is highlighting.

@shoaibalich @_jacksmith I guess I'm missing the cause it's highlighting here then? The GDPR gives data subjects rights that they should have in regards to their data. This is malicious usage of the rights granted to waste company time to 'comply'. A law can't really address for all forms of abuse without adding limitations to rights, and these limitations will ultimately be exploited by companies in bad faith. What do you propose the GDPR do to ensure data subjects have these same rights, and yet prevent against these kinds of frivolous requests? If a company just didn't respond to such a request, or replied with a lousy response, the user would have to complain to the DPAs if they wished to pursue it further. And I imagine the DPAs wouldn't look upon this favourably. I highly doubt any (especially small) company served with this nonsense would experience repercussions for failing to respond 'in full detail'.

Err, no. GDPR is meant to be useful, but sadly, as numerous other legislation, it was written by people that are out of touch with the subject of it.

"GDPR doesn't suck" - that's your opinion. many people would argue that it does suck and dis-proportionally hurts startups vs big companies like google which can afford to have lawyers etc to respond to requests.

"Should be removed from Product Hunt" lol, why? this is the internet, did you hear of free speech before? what if I want to be able to submit a gdpr request