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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @03:34AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @03:34AM (#698583)

    If so, the GDPR is even better than I had hoped.

    There is zero chance of the US passing any laws that protect ordinary citizens-- ours is a government that is sold to the highest bidder.

    But, if what you say is true, we in this backward corporate run dystopia may get some of the protections against surveillance by our corporate rulers that people in civilized nations where the governments represent the citizens (at least to some extent), take for granted.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @06:54AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @06:54AM (#698624)

    GPDR, DMCA, seems everytime someone is empowered with the authority to compel behaviour, backed by physical violence if it comes to that, someone will find a way to harness that ability to coerce with his own personal agenda.

    GPDR seems to apply to personal information about like DMCA applies to corporate information.

    If the last three words of our pledge of allegiance don't ring true anymore, are the first three words meaningful in such a context?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @09:19AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @09:19AM (#698668)

      the pledge has always been a dirty rag at best

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday June 26 2018, @11:58AM

      by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Tuesday June 26 2018, @11:58AM (#698699) Journal

      If the last three words of our american pledge of allegiance don't ring true anymore, are the first three words meaningful in such a context?

      In a European context? No, not really.