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Seems they have zero presence in the EU, or indeed anywhere outside of the US (and probably don't want to) it's the probably the cheapest and easiest way not to fall foul of the rules.
LA Times, Chiago Tribune and other news sites are the same. I'm guessing cost of working out how to be compliant is more than the revenue lost by blocking.
Maybe they’re just dicks
Absolutely.
Firm I work for got one of it's major personnel systems pulled due to non-compliance.
They can't even tell why it's non-compliant, just that it isn't. The US-based company only has a couple of EU clients and it's definitely not worth their while.
Just use a VPN if you're that bothered. I had to do that when doing a bit of pre-holiday planning earlier in the year.
Site works fine for me . . . . Currently in NYC though.
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On a recent visit to one of my suppliers, I found that the name, company, date, reg no etc fill in boxes were blacked out and hence I could not see what I was writing.
When I asked what was that all about, the line trotted out was Data Protection.......
So, when I next see one of these I will just scribble something, anything just in order to protect my true identity - My data protected 100%.
Only 1 supplier out of many I must add. Obviously an over zealous employee inventing 'data protection' where none is probably not actually needed.
LA Times, Chiago Tribune and other news sites are the same. I’m guessing cost of working out how to be compliant is more than the revenue lost by blocking.
Or the revenue from selling data and not telling the locals what you are doing with it is worth more to them. GDPR must have started a lot of conversations outside of Europe about data
They've got a year before they'll need a similar banner for California.
Even a VPN didn't enable me to do a Whois query on a domain name to see whether a website was fraudulent. GDPR has definitely not done the public any favours there. Business details are not personal information and shouldn't be treated as such.
Yes, but do they value my privacy?
"Shucky darn, Duane, it's 25 after 5 on a Friday night, what in the sam hill are we going to do about this GDPR thing they're talking about over in the ol' US of E?"
"Doggone it Leroy, I'd forgotten all about... wait, hold my beer a while would ya, I have me an idea!"
(five minutes later...)
"Great job Duane! Now, let's go and shoot some stuff!" *high fives*