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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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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday June 26 2018, @03:08AM (5 children)
And? Show me the damage.
Give me an analogy.
Is it like those protectionist taxes your president puts on the trade "for national security reasons"? Or those "Ban Huawei from competing in 5G technology on US soil"?
Isn't POTUS in his rights to raise them?
Isn't Europe in their rights to ask for a better protection of privacy for european citizens than what the american companies offer? The europeans seems to value private/personal data as much as the US value "trade secrets" - what's wrong with that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @09:48AM (2 children)
Europe is not the EU and EU legislation is proposed by the commission, not the people or their duly elected representatives.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:52AM
Their elected representatives can actually refuse to ratify or adopt the law into their respective countries if they feel is contrary to the interest of the people they represent.
Has happened for the case of ACTA [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by quietus on Tuesday June 26 2018, @06:56PM
The Commission merely draws up proposals for EU legislation. The Council of Ministers (the Council of the European Union) as well as the European Parliament have to vote on those proposals before they can come into 'law'. Both bodies consist of elected representatives.
In practice it's a bit more complicated. The initiative for EU legislation typically originates in the Council of the European Union, which gives the order to the Commission to (a) provide technical expertise and/or (b) translate their initiative into legislative proposal. The Parliament then typically modifies this legislative proposal through amendments, in negotiation with the Commission.
The Commission itself can (and does) provide proposals of her own -- the recent GDPR legislation [iapp.org] is a case in point, for instance -- but these still have to go through the same back-and-forth with both the Council and the Parliament (which, again, consists of directly elected representatives).
The linky gives you a bit of an impression of this negotiating process (start at 25 January 2012).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:31PM (1 child)
Europe can do whatever it wants. Just as any other entity can. Just dont expect those outside Europe to care. Just as other entities dont.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:24PM
As this article summary demonstrates, they don't need to care unless they want to do business there.
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