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This is the exact quote, folks. No games!
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 The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:56PM (2 children)
Not particularly, no. That's just how I speak when confronted by base stupidity.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:09PM (1 child)
dude you're smart but this was disappointing
tell us why you dont like it
the fact that so many news organizations voluntarily blocked readership tells me that... their busines model is predicated on privacy violation of some kind. otherwise they wouldnt have a problem.
i have a problem with privacy violations. i have a problem with companies doing it and hiding behind a eula, or everyone does it so we can too, or any of that.
but you havent really said why you are for it. or if you aren't for privacy violations, what about the gpdr's effects are bothering you as an admin. yes it makes extra work, but i would expect it is work that was just put off until now.
sort of like https on the website and asking for and shredding your carbon copies in the past... or choosing to not fill in the personal interest boxes on the warranty card you would mail in way back in the 90s and prior to then.
the same thing is important now--even more so now: the less info leakage the better
but you havent said why privacy is such an inconvenience. never mind europe or america. whats the dig? too much extra work i guess sucks but that means your employers may not have had their customers best interests in mind, if it is irritating to have to clean up after the mess.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:26PM
I already did [soylentnews.org]. It's massive government overreach and it's tech policy being made by unqualified buffoons.
There's been a story in the queue waiting for notes, changes, and sign-off by management about SN and the GDPR for a couple weeks now. The cliff notes version is that the GDPR does not apply to us by its own criteria (the entire issue of the EU having the authority to enforce it on US sites in the first place aside) but it did make us want to have the privacy discussion and get whatever changes we as a community decide are necessary made.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.