For some of America’s biggest newspapers and online services, it’s easier to block half a billion people from accessing your product than comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation.
The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The New York Daily News are just some telling visitors that, "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries."
With about 500 million people living in the European Union, that’s a hard ban on one-and-a-half times the population of the U.S.
Blanket blocking EU internet connections -- which will include any U.S. citizens visiting Europe -- isn’t limited to newspapers. Popular read-it-later service Instapaper says on its website that it’s "temporarily unavailable for residents in Europe as we continue to make changes in light of the General Data Protection Regulation."
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WNU Editor: To say that this sucks is an understatement. I understand and respect the importance of having one's data private .... but I also understand and appreciate that many excellent web services and products are offered for free on the condition that they can use your data for marketing purposes. There is a need to have a balance .... but in the case of the European organization responsible for these new rules it appears that the word "balance" is not in their vocabulary .... it is their way or the the highway. For WNU readers of this blog in the EU .... this is going to hurt.
10 comments:
Sh*t... I've been visiting this news blog almost everyday for the last 7 years.. Good source of information and now they even want to take that away from us. It sucks
The nanny state keeps getting bigger
Does that go for the uk aswell??
Use a VPN.
Caecus seems to think that making sure a viewer has his privacy protected is an indication of a nanny state when in fact for most of us, our privacy is central, and regulations by the state that protect us tops no regulation that allows any and all things to be done with our private information, C. then has a cliche response that he spits out at any law, regulation no matter its intention
That sucks,your blog is amazing
But VPN will solve their issue no?
There has to be a better way solving this than a VPN..?
The EU won't protect you from islamic terrorism, so forget about them protecting your privacy
We will have to wait and see what happens. Fortunately .... I post from numerous sources. So while the L.A. Times may be blocked, Reuters/AP/AFP/etc. will not.
Dave Goldstein & Caucus
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