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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: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday May 29 2018, @01:05PM
Just because data protection in the abstract is a good thing doesn't mean the way the GDPR goes about it is necessarily a good approach. Many especially smaller website operators lack the resources to hire a representative in the Union pursuant to article 27. So instead, they put up a geoblock as a way of making it clear to regulators that they no longer offer goods or services to data subjects in the Union.