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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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Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by theluggage on Friday August 10 2018, @02:56PM
Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws [bbc.co.uk] - the complaints are in, the wheels are grinding slowly and the EU isn't above holding large multinationals to account in other fields.
The GDPR trolls will need to form an orderly queue behind the copyright/DMCA trolls, patent trolls and hate-speech censorship trolls then. GDPR is way, way down the list of possible reasons why you might not want to run a n hobby website in the modern world. If its collecting users' personal data beyond the minimum needed for (say) accepting comments then its not a hobby website. Frankly, I wouldn't want to run any site with a public forum as a private individual, GDPR or none.
AFAIK you can't privately sue people for GDPR breaches, anyway - its enforced by the EU agencies and the first recourse for anybody finding a breach is to report it to the appropriate ICO. If your national laws allow legal extortion via meritless claims by people who have no standing then that's not the EU's problem (...and, ultimately, if a US site wants to geoblock Europe then that's their prerogative).
The main problem with the way GDPR was introduced is that the official information is very, very corporate-centric and doesn't really offer any helpful advice to small fry (but that's typical of government). From their point of view you're either an individual complaining about a GDPR breach or an organisation needing to comply. Meanwhile there was an awful lot of FUD by consultancy firms who want people to pay them for compliance products/services.