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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @07:25PM
i go out of my way to protect privacy in my applications. they only require data that is needed for basic functionality or any opt-in functionality. like email and username required for ;login and password reset, plus any data needed if you choose to use optional features. from my reading of the GDPR, i'm supposed to treat data that is provided to the app as *the user's data*, in perpetuity, and magically delete just their data from previous automated backups if they should ever determine that they should be forgotten, likely amoungst other vaguely worded BS. if an app has conversations between people am i supposed to break the conversation for everyone (rewrite history) because you left? uuhhh screw you? when you provide the data to my application that data becomes mine, assuming i'm using it in accordance with my TOS or PP that you accepted by using my site. that's the whole point of the word "give" or "provide".
what kind of slave needs the government to try and tell sites what to do to protect them from fake news, bad privacy policies, etc. are you too damn stupid to make your own choices? what happens when we start letting leeches in capitals around the world micromanage every aspect of running a private business? I guess EU slaves think that's just great. if you listen to the hearings in the US congress that's exactly what those authoritarian pieces of shit are talking about. anyone begging for it should be shot into the sun.