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GDPR Forgive Us, It's Been One Month Since You Were Enforced…

posted by mrpg on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the much-ado-about-nothing dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A month after the enforcement date of the General Data Protection Regulation – a law that businesses had two years to prepare for – many websites are still locking out users in the European Union as a method of compliance.

[...] Another retailer that failed to get its house in order is posh homeware store Pottery Barn, whose notice says that "due to technical challenges caused by new regulations in Europe" it can't accept orders from the EU.

"The pace of global regulations is hard to predict," the shop complains about the legislation, which was adopted on 14 April 2016. "But we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our products everywhere."

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:35AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:35AM (#698546) Journal

    Disrespect the customers, expect to die.
    ...
    I can imagine the GDPR being abused, but at this point in time, it's the customer consumer who is being abused.

    FTFY. Because they do respect their customers (or at least don't disrespect them intentionally).

    It is their consumers that are fucked in regards with their privacy rights, the ones 'that are the product not the customer'.
    And if you start to respect the privacy rights of their merchandise, they will die because their business model is based on not respecting those rights.
    From my side, a good riddance to them (but I have a hunch my PoV is not that representative as I'd wish)

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