This is why the EU could shut down my app...

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This is why the EU could shut down my app...

…okay, not that dramatic 🤣

But GDPR is something I’ve been working through properly now.

If you’re building anything in Europe, you can’t ignore it. Especially for an app like Votap where people are interacting with political content. So here’s how I’m approaching it:

• Transparency & consent: part of the registration flow, clearly explaining what data is used and why

• Phone number: only for authentication, nothing else

• Votes: stored without direct personal identifiers, only used in aggregates

• Rough location: just for relevance (postal code level), not tracking

• Withdraw consent: delete account anytime, also with your data

• Right to be forgotten: handled through account deletion

• Data export: coming soon (you’ll be able to download everything as a JSON file)

I used to see GDPR as annoying. Now I kind of like it. It forces me to be very clear with users about how things work, and in an app like this, that trust really matters.

How do you handle GDPR in your apps? Anything tricky you ran into?

Download Votap in the App Store to try it out.

More tomorrow.