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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:06AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:06AM (#698626)

    I'm in the fucking EU, and just had to use a proxy to read a bloody article in the LA Times. Fuck' em and their privacy protection, I can protect myself. Nanny bastards. First we are deluged with their shitty cookie warnings, now I need to accept a fucking agreement each timeI check weather on a bloody website that doesn't suck donkey balls. Yeah, I know it's generally good for the sheeple. Fuck 'em, anyway. Plus, that shitty new copyright bullshit law. Let the EU law-making bastards be ass-raped by a nasty illegal immigrant donkey on steroids and angel dust.

    Excuse me for venting. I'll go about my life, now.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @11:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @11:15AM (#698689)

    Maybe if "trustworthy computing" concepts such as script and cookie blockers become widespread, and the average joe only spills the beans he deliberately types in the query box, this kind of regulation of stuff going on behind everyone's back will be moot.

    Javascript has been deployed. It has been abused. If the populace will wise up and block it, webmasters still enforcing it will only see their hits vanish before their eyes, and they will have the honor of telling the investors that paid their salary why their market share is drying up.