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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 Aiwendil on Tuesday June 26 2018, @06:13PM (1 child)

    by Aiwendil (531) on Tuesday June 26 2018, @06:13PM (#698883) Journal

    What should the backup plan for a publisher be if and when "Crowdsourcing and similar donations" cease to suffice? Cessation of operations?

    It used to be that cessation of operations was what they did when publications didn't sell - don't really see why the web should be the exception.

    If a site uses sponsored content and/or product placement, what steps should a publisher take to ensure that advertisers do not exert undue influence on a site's editorial policy through strings attached to sponsorship?

    The same as that the owner doesn't - which is very close to nothing. (Quite frankly - today it is somewhat similar, if you make your ad-provider mad enough at you they you end up in roughly the same situation, so they do already exert a high degree of influence on the content)

    I don't see how that could be practical. A switch from interest-based ads to non-interest-based ads would increase the number of ads that a site has to carry because advertisers pay publishers substantially more for interest-based ads than for non-interest-based ads.

    Considering that the interest-based ads are about as good as just tailoring the ads towards what is being served in terms of content of a site that should correct itself sooner or later anyway (ie, it will align in terms of what they pay).
    And no, the sites wouldn't have to carry more, rather the less efficient sites will disappear first, and the more efficient sites would provide more content per ad.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday July 25 2018, @05:50PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @05:50PM (#712520) Journal

    interest-based ads are about as good as just tailoring the ads towards what is being served in terms of content of a site

    I'd like to see some reliable source that backs up this claim.