More information will be made available about our position with regards to the GDPR in the next day or so and a few more provisions are being added to the software (this will be detailed more in the upcoming post) by the implementation deadline. Beyond that, I'd ask that you slow the roll so-to-speak on personal interpretations and armchair legalese for there is no need to get worked up into a frenzy. Much like Y2K when everyone thought the world was going to end, the power grid was going to shut down and we'd be left with a smoking pile of circuitry ashes - I assure you, May 26th will be uneventful and we will all carry on as normal - just with some additional data processing safeguards. The regulations will be further interpreted, tested via case law and the world (including IPS) will adapt accordingly. In the interim, please relax and wait for our next update this week. It should address the remaining concerns we've interpreted and determined to be valid.
As an aside, the software does not prevent you from controlling content. It is not our position nor that of the numerous experts we've consulted with that contributed content to a public community-centric entity constitutes personal information in accordance with the GDPR. If you believe otherwise, the software allows you to delete that content upon receipt of a right to erasure request from a data subject. You can also include in your terms and conditions (which you can require your users to accept) verbiage that addresses copyright, if you so desire. All of this is your decision based on your (and ideally, your legal expert's) individual interpretation of applicable laws - we are just providing baseline tools based on our interpretation.
Please stay tuned while we further address your GDPR concerns such as obtaining technical support, data portability, etc.
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