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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 datapharmer on Tuesday May 29 2018, @01:16PM
As someone who has customers hosted with Lee Enterprises (they sell their software as a service in addition to running it for their own publications) they are purging all European data from their sites and their customers' sites (they warned everyone first). The reason they are doing this is that they really are trying to comply with the GDPR, it is just that the GDPR is written in such a way that it is nearly impossible to comply 100% and run a functional news website with comments, etc. I'm all for the spirit of the GDPR but I suspect that anyone that thinks the GDPR is without its own problems either hasn't tried to actually comply with the letter of the law or doesn't fully understand it.