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It's anything but a happy General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) day for several major U.S. news organizations as their websites are temporarily blocked in Europe as a new data privacy law goes into effect today.
Websites such as the LA Times, NY Daily News and Chicago Tribune are all temporarily blocked this morning, saying their content is unavailable in most European countries.
Anyone trying to access the sites, which also include those owned by Tronc and Lee Enterprises (examples include Orlando Sentinel [Tronc], Arizona Daily Sun and the St. Louis Dispatch [Lee Entperises]) see a message explaining that the website is working with European authorities on trying to get access back as quickly as possible.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @11:32AM
There is no exemption because that is the intent. Data collected before GDPR day is probably gathered without informed consent anyway. If you after GDPR day, inform your customers/visitors about the data you collect and what you do with it, then all data from that visitor that is accurately described, this is both data before and after GDPR day, is now legally obtained. In other words, there is no problem here.
By the way, I thought that informed consent is also part of the U.S. law. One big thing the GDPR does is define that informed consent significantly more clear.