Comment by eddyzh
7 months ago
Thanks for your response!
Honestly I get the T-shirt part this way. You got to Doo crazy stuff as a start-up. I also get that you try ai stuff. As long as you keep up de search.
However what scares me is the apparent lack of knowledge about privacy, gdpr and what is PII in a product that, to me, is all about privacy. Have one person in the company be an expert in privacy and GDPR etc and use their insights, since it is critical for your right of existence.
I got the same impression - the lack of understanding of the basics of GDPR makes them look as amateurs, not professionals trying to raise the bar for privacy. I was considering using Kagi, but this is a massive turn off.
They'll likely discover that GDPR is not that optional as soon as a customer (or a competitor with a grudge!) reports them to their relevant national privacy/personal data protection authority, after which they'll get to have a very uncomfortable conversation where they will not be able to use those arguments
It’s very simple to just not have all that much PII or customer data. At that point you can more or less ignore GDRP.
Kagi is a US company. GDPR is not a US law.
Does not really matter as long as they offer it in EU countries.
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To your point: From the original post it was mentioned they created an entity in Germany (for the T-shirts).
This means they're exposed to GDPR not only indirectly by serving EU citizens but also directly by operating within the EU.