GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules

[ABX]

A number of high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new European Union rules on data protection came into effect.

The Chicago Tribune and LA Times were among those posting messages saying they were currently unavailable in most European countries.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives EU citizens more rights over how their information is used....

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44248448

[ABX]

Not just these big news sites, tens of thousands of small sites as well. This is why your inbox is probably full of 'privacy policy' emails this week.

[Oceander]

If anyone here posts from Europe, perhaps they can post here if they can still see the forum?

[endicom]

If anyone here posts from Europe, perhaps they can post here if they can still see the forum?

It wouldn't be just TBR, right? Wouldn't it have to be whichever Sauron hosts TBR?

[ABX]

It wouldn't be just TBR, right? Wouldn't it have to be whichever Sauron hosts TBR?

Doesn't seem to have impacted us but we aren't a heavy data collector, just the basics that the forum software requires. You can see what we do in your profile settings (we are very transparent about everything). I do worry about a certain other site though knowing the private and sensitive data they keep behind the scenes and that they are stubborn about disclosure.

[Oceander]

It wouldn't be just TBR, right? Wouldn't it have to be whichever Sauron hosts TBR?

That I’m not sure of. 

[ABX]

..and just to clarify, even though these are EU rules, they impact any site around the world that EU citizens can access. The FCC has already told the EU they would help in forcing US sites to be in compliance.

[The_Reader_David]

I'm in the UK visiting my daughter and can still read TBR.

OTOH, the new rules killed the hexgrid wargaming site based in Scotland that I really liked.  Completely absurd -- the e-commerce sites run by the same company to sell play-vs-AI hexgrid games are still up, but evidently sending the state of a game in progress counted as "personal data" and they couldn't update the site to meet the EU's diktat.