The response to GDPR is interesting. If they are handling and selling your data in ways that are not compatible with GDPR, then you should seriously consider using someone else for that information.
GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
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Re: GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they have readers that are physically in the EU, then those readers would be covered by the GDPR.
As long as there is no business relationship to any EU entity they would not be "doing business in the EU", would they? I doubt making a website available on the global internet would be seen as "doing business in the EU".
Doing business in the EU is only one path that causes the GDPR apply to you, processing personal data of people located within the EU, not necessarily EU citizens, is another one and probably the one relevant here.
Article 3(2): This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to: (a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or (b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.
Re: GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they have readers that are physically in the EU, then those readers would be covered by the GDPR.
As long as there is no business relationship to any EU entity they would not be "doing business in the EU", would they? I doubt making a website available on the global internet would be seen as "doing business in the EU".
It's still unknown how exactly they will enforce the GDPR, but they've got data on Europeans thus need to comply. The US does this quite often as well having their laws applied to foreign companies, without them being physically present in the US.
Re: GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
#14In 1y every website will have a click through EULA with 20 pages that loads before everything else and doesn't store IPS - and which no one is reading - privacy served. Just when they install from the App store or install Microsoft Office.
Re: GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
#15In 1y every website will have a click through EULA with 20 pages that loads before everything else and doesn't store IPs - and which no one is reading - privacy served. Just when they install from the App store or install Microsoft Office.
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#16GDPR does not have the full force of law in Iceland but yet I am blocked. Not that I will miss those publications.
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#17I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were caught off guard on GPDR. There are some who seem to feel that the pending deadline was universal knowledge, but I don't think it was for many of us in the US. I hadn't heard of it until the recent Monal kerfuffle here on HN.
Re: GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
#18Blocking access at geographic level across pretty clear signal they don't care about users/readers in those regions (I think it's hard to argue otherwise, the law has been coming for 2 years). Obviously they cater to people interested in local news in those regions. However, I hope they will rectify and allow access again for EU users at some point soon. It seems to go against the idea of a borderless internet, and I…
They will, see my click through EULA comment.
Re: GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
#19Things like this will test how much EU citizens value their privacy. Of course there will be some sites they will not be able to visit but time will show if they are okay with that. These rules are very similar to rules limiting loans. No matter how desperate a person is and how low credit they have, in the US you can't give them a loan for above a certain amount of interest. That could be terrible for a poor person…
You can still run a free website and be compliant with the GDPR. The EU/EEA is the largest market in the world, closing yourself for an market that size will hurt more than changing a few thing to be compliant.
Re: GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
#20GDPR hysteria.
I wished everyone who says "GDPR hysteria" would cover legal costs for those who are hysteric.