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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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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Aiwendil on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:57AM
Most people still don't have a clue what is handed over, for them it is akin to "updated ToS", "another cookie warning", "probably an ad about another newsletter we don't want", "something marketing", "blah".
The users are already conditioned to click through (most probably would assume it was just an updated cookie warning frankly), and the few that aren't already blocks or remove cookies/ads and most likely was aware of it before (and those are the only one that see it recurring more than once per site).
How I wish that was from my cynical side...