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."
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:07PM
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.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.