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Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR

posted by mrpg on Friday August 10 2018, @04:15AM   
from the ain't-gonna-happen dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Many US news sites have yet to comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation after more than two months, leaving European visitors blocked.

Digital outlets run by Tronc, Lee Enterprises and GateHouse Media are among the hundreds of US news websites that remain unavailable within the EU, according to NiemanLab.

The General Data Protection Regulation, also known as GDPR, is designed to give the EU's 500 million citizens greater control over how their information is used online. Adopted in April 2016, its provisions became directly applicable in EU member states after a two-year transitional period.

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Original Submission

• Self block Self block (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @04:45AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @04:45AM (#719796)

  They are self blocking, probably trying to put pressure (haha, motherfuckers, you visit Brussels for that, and suck some cocks/cunts, or you thought DC was enough? And bad news, you many need to visit Beijing later). Or to avoid other people to demand similar treatment (the horror, USA caring about privacy... no, no, companies can stalk all they want, it's the market).

  Visitors can use proxies and extensions to make their "preciousssssssss" cookies useless and see the sites "anonymously". Based in how they whine about blockers and other things, it must be working to some level.

  Others sites just updated, or did like NPR and gave you an alternate version with a message like:

  Data Protection Choices

  By choosing “I agree” below, you agree that NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media services, sponsorship, analytics and other third-party service providers. See details.
  Agreen and Continue | Decline and Visit Plain Text Site

  NPR’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

  You can try with https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org/ [npr.org]

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• Re:Self block (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @04:55AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @04:55AM (#719797)

  The NPR page is non-functional for me. With JavaScript, perhaps it would work.

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