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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, @03:42AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 26 2018, @03:42AM (#698587) Journal

    Man, we take privacy seriously as anyone without a foil hat around here but the GDPR is still an overreaching PoS.

    How so?
    Had S/N have to do any change at all because of GDPR?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @09:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @09:43AM (#698672)

    Nothing explicit: https://github.com/SoylentNews?q=GDPR [github.com]

    Maybe they can get foil hats? Do they come in bulk?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:21PM (#698726)

    I think "we" means people like me, not S/N as an administrative body.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:07PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:07PM (#698816) Homepage Journal

    By what I read here [gdpr-info.eu] (check the recitals as well) it doesn't apply to us. It's made me want to take a look at strengthening the protections on the one bit of arguably private data we actually collect, the email address you supply, though. Not because we're required to but because that's just how we roll around here.

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