Brexit - Hurry Up Please So I can Read The LA Times Online Again (25 May EU Lockout)

[SunnyInHades]

A consequence of the EU's gdpr ruling kicked in today...

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[Mordac]

The law of unintended consequences in action. What probably started out as a good idea found it's way through the digestive systems of a thousand EU bureaucrats, and what we now have is a dogs dinner which nobody understands. They'd better hope somebody big (Google, Microsoft or Facebook) really screws up, or they'll never recoup the costs.

[SunnyInHades]

"The European Union’s digital privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), officially went into effect today. But some websites in the U.S. have decided to block their services entirely rather than adhere to the new regulations."
"Blocking 500 Million Users Is Easier Than Complying With Europe’s New Rules" - Bloomberg

Reported sites so far ..

Web Sites/Online Services Now Banned For EU Citizens
Instapaper
unroll.me
A&E Networks - all websites (History.com etc.) owned by Hearst and Disney
Super Monday Night Combat
Ragnarok Online
Shoes.com
Verve
brentozar.com
tunngle.net
Drawbridge
Steel Root

La Times
Chicago Tribune
Elgin Courier-news
San Diego Union-Tribune
Capital Gazette
The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore City Paper
Carroll County Times
Sun-Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
Hartford Courant
The Morning Call
Daily Press
Virginia Gazette
New York Daily News
City and Shore
The Daily Meal
The Active Times
Arizona Daily Sun
Arizona Daily Star
The Sentinel, Hanford
The Lompoc Record
Napa Valley Register
Santa Maria Times
South Idaho Press
The Pantagraph
The Southern Illinoisan
Herald & Review
The Dispatch/ The Rock Island Argus
Daily Journal
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier
The Times of Northwest Indiana
Quad-City Times
Globe Gazette
Muscatine Journal
Sioux City Journal
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Winona Daily News
Daily Journal, Missouri
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Billings Gazette
The Montana Standard
Ravalli Republic
Independent Record
Missoulian
Missoula Independent
Beatrice Daily Sun
Columbus Telegram
Fremont Tribune
Lincoln Journal Star
Elko Daily Free Press
The Citizen, Auburn
The Post-Star
The Bismarck Tribune
Albany Democrat-Herald
The World, Coos Bay
Corvallis Gazette-Times
Lebanon Express
The Umpqua Post
The Sentinel, Pennsylvania
The Times and Democrat
Rapid City Journal
The Daily news
Capital Newspapers
Wiscnews
The Chippewa Herald
La Crosse Tribune
Madison Newspapers
Racine Journal Times
Casper Star-Tribune

Web Sites With 'Agree To Continue' Front Page Or Auto Redirection For EU Citizens
Oath sites - www.yahoo.com, huffpost, TechCrunch, Aol, Tumblr
NPR.org
slate.com
Washington Post
Time.com
Fortune.com
usatoday.com - EU citizens auto redirected to eu.usatoday.com
https://www.timeanddate.com

Apps Now Banned For EU Citizens
Stardust, a movie and TV review app - completely removed its product from EU versions of Google Play and Apple’s App Store, as well as deleted all EU contacts from its records

Opportunistic Lawsuits Filed Against US Companies
"None of Your Business, an NGO launched by Europe’s flagship privacy activist Max Schrems, filed challenges against Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp for violations of GDPR rules. The NGO estimates the violations could amount to a €7 billion fine."

No reports of big www site lockouts for EU citizens yet (e.g. Google, Bing, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Netflix, GMail, Hotmail, Instagram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn).

[DaveB]

A consequence of the EU's gdpr ruling kicked in today...

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Brexit won't make any difference. GDPR is being incorporated into UK law anyway as part of the leaving process under Clause 3 of the European Union Withdrawal Bill, along with all other EU law currently in effect and for which the UK is in scope.

https://publications.parliament.uk/p...2.htm#pb2-l1g3

3 Incorporation of direct EU legislation
(1) Direct EU legislation, so far as operative immediately before exit day, forms part of domestic law on and after exit day.

(2) In this Act “direct EU legislation” means—
(a) any EU regulation, EU decision or EU tertiary legislation, as it has effect in EU law immediately before exit day and so far as—
(i) it is not an exempt EU instrument (for which see section 19(1) and Schedule 6),
(ii) it is not an EU decision addressed only to a member State other than the United Kingdom, and
(iii) its effect is not reproduced in an enactment to which section 2(1) applies,
(b) any Annex to the EEA agreement, as it has effect in EU law immediately before exit day and so far as—
(i) it refers to, or contains adaptations of, anything falling within paragraph (a), and
(ii) its effect is not reproduced in an enactment to which section 2(1) applies, or
(c) Protocol 1 to the EEA agreement (which contains horizontal adaptations that apply in relation to EU instruments referred to in the Annexes to that agreement), as it has effect in EU law immediately before exit day.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, any direct EU legislation is operative immediately before exit day if—
(a) in the case of anything which comes into force at a particular time and is stated to apply from a later time, it is in force and applies immediately before exit day,
(b) in the case of a decision which specifies to whom it is addressed, it has been notified to that person before exit day, and
(c) in any other case, it is in force immediately before exit day.

(4)
This section—
(a) brings into domestic law any direct EU legislation only in the form of the English language version of that legislation, and
(b) does not apply to any such legislation for which there is no such version, but paragraph (a) does not affect the use of the other language versions of that legislation for the purposes of interpreting it.

(5) This section is subject to section 6 and Schedule 1 (exceptions to savings and incorporation).

[SunnyInHades]

Brexit won't make any difference. GDPR is being incorporated into UK law anyway as part of the leaving process under Clause 3 of the European Union Withdrawal Bill, along with all other EU law currently in effect and for which the UK is in scope.

I agree that on 'day 1' after leaving the EU we get all the EU laws, warts'n'all.

However if on 'day 2' we decide that "the EU GDPR legislation is pants, let's ditch it" we'll be able to, no questions asked.
EU members such as Germany, France and Italy won't have that option.

[sasguru]

FFS if you're really missing the "Lebanon Times" of Lebanon, US I'm sure you'll find a way to access it. Or you're a cretin.
The GDPR is generally a good idea in my book.

[DaveB]

I agree that on 'day 1' after leaving the EU we get all the EU laws, warts'n'all.

However if on 'day 2' we decide that "the EU GDPR legislation is pants, let's ditch it" we'll be able to, no questions asked.
EU members such as Germany, France and Italy won't have that option.

Wont make any difference if we do.

If UK companies are processing EU citizen data they will have to comply anyway. All that will happen is that UK citizens will lose the rights they now have when non EU companies get hold of their data.

[meridian]

"The European Union’s digital privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), officially went into effect today. But some websites in the U.S. have decided to block their services entirely rather than adhere to the new regulations."
"Blocking 500 Million Users Is Easier Than Complying With Europe’s New Rules" - Bloomberg

As you’ve quoted Bloomberg, it doesn’t appear to have been a problem for them. Or for the WSJ, for that matter.

Perhaps you should consider which organisations you’re giving your personal data to, and the reasons why they don’t want to comply ;-)

[Mordac]

FFS if you're really missing the "Lebanon Times" of Lebanon, US I'm sure you'll find a way to access it. Or you're a cretin.
The GDPR is generally a good idea in my book.

A good idea, possibly, but it's been drafted and implemented by cretins, most likely so they can fine all the big US tech companies all over again. It is creating difficulties in doing business in the EU, how can you possibly think that's a good thing? Unless you're a cretin...

[sasguru]

A good idea, possibly, but it's been drafted and implemented by cretins, most likely so they can fine all the big US tech companies all over again. It is creating difficulties in doing business in the EU, how can you possibly think that's a good thing? Unless you're a cretin...

No it's not you imbecilic moron.
Previously there were different data standards for each country, now there is one.
Do some fooking research before having a brain-fart opinion.
Oh wait I forgot you're a brexiter....

Being gammon you'd probably whine the loudest of your data was misused anyway. Wouldn't want your missus knowing about your sub to Grindr now, would you? This protects you.