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Comment by threeseed | Hacker News Reader

I can't tell if this is a joke or not.

Don't pay "thousands" for GPDR compliance work which will improve your product by providing basic privacy and security features.

Instead pay up to $79 a month for a service to block a large percentage of your traffic.

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Not a joke :). The pricing is actually cheaper than "bare" geolocation APIs, which don't do the blocking-part. Have a look at https://ipstack.com/product for example.

If you get a quote from an experienced data protection lawyer for GDPR compliance, this will be an order of magnitude cheaper in the long run. There's a real risk of getting sued / getting cease and desist letters from predatory law firms who aim to collect fees for small mistakes in your privacy policy.

> There's a real risk of getting sued / getting cease and desist letters from predatory law firms who aim to collect fees for small mistakes in your privacy policy

No there isn't.

When the GPDR fines are 2% of revenue there isn't the incentive for lawyers to go after businesses earning less than a million a year in revenue.

or 10m euro, whichever is higher

You're mixing up the member states' enforcement (4% of worldwide turnover or €20 million, whichever is higher) and civil suits. There are law firms that send out thousands of cease and desist letters (which is a civil action) based on automated searches for mistakes. It absolutely makes economic sense for lawyers to pursue out-of-court settlements from businesses if it's mostly automated.

This is just nonsense. I don't see how the GDPR possibly allows civil actions for infractions, doubly so for countries outside the EU.

I’m wondering the same, the submitter of the link is definitely having some fun with the title.

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