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posted by mrpg on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the much-ado-about-nothing dept.

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, @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.