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GDPR Shield: block your website from EU visitors

14 points by gcatalfamo 8y ago

AndyMcConachie 8y ago
I'm an EU resident that travels. Good luck!
- SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
  A new type of bad actor is born: the EU citizen that willfully puts their information in bad sites to get them GDPR violations. Dastardly.
  - idbehold 8y ago
    Every website will now just ask "Are you a resident of the EU?" like all the porn sites asked if you were over 18.
- dogma1138 8y ago
  The GDPR applies only when you provide services to EU territories otherwise every EU tourist would trigger this and yeah this won’t hold water. Good luck asking the Hostel you stayed in Argentina about GDPR compliance. And if the EU will try to force it via the payment processors which is quite possible then the only thing you’ll see is sorry we don’t accept American Express or EU payment cards signs at many places around the world.
  - chomp 8y ago
    Article 3 for anyone who's interested. And yeah simple VPN can beat this service. There are ways to block EU residents so as to not have to comply with the regulation, but they require more than a single piece of javascript code.
    - dogma1138 8y ago
      Like with any law the intent matters if it won’t it’s going to be even more of a clusterfuck. Technically a pop up saying we do not provide service to EU residents is sufficient. My biggest fear currently is that PayPal will force people to comply or refuse to allow EU users to checkout on non compliant storefronts which may impact a lot of small and or niche merchants from being able to sell to the EU or and me form buying form them. This is what the payment processors do in the PCI world and for PayPal to be GDPR compliant they need to make sure that anyone they share data with are also compliant. Not mention that within the EU a lot of blockchain related companies are scratching their heads in how to comply with the data deletion requirements of the GDPR if you write any PII to the blockchain.
emddudley 8y ago
Previous discussion (123 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16991185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16991185

14 points by gcatalfamo 8y ago

AndyMcConachie 8y ago

I'm an EU resident that travels. Good luck!

SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
A new type of bad actor is born: the EU citizen that willfully puts their information in bad sites to get them GDPR violations. Dastardly.
- idbehold 8y ago
  Every website will now just ask "Are you a resident of the EU?" like all the porn sites asked if you were over 18.
dogma1138 8y ago
The GDPR applies only when you provide services to EU territories otherwise every EU tourist would trigger this and yeah this won’t hold water. Good luck asking the Hostel you stayed in Argentina about GDPR compliance. And if the EU will try to force it via the payment processors which is quite possible then the only thing you’ll see is sorry we don’t accept American Express or EU payment cards signs at many places around the world.
- chomp 8y ago
  Article 3 for anyone who's interested. And yeah simple VPN can beat this service. There are ways to block EU residents so as to not have to comply with the regulation, but they require more than a single piece of javascript code.
  - dogma1138 8y ago
    Like with any law the intent matters if it won’t it’s going to be even more of a clusterfuck. Technically a pop up saying we do not provide service to EU residents is sufficient. My biggest fear currently is that PayPal will force people to comply or refuse to allow EU users to checkout on non compliant storefronts which may impact a lot of small and or niche merchants from being able to sell to the EU or and me form buying form them. This is what the payment processors do in the PCI world and for PayPal to be GDPR compliant they need to make sure that anyone they share data with are also compliant. Not mention that within the EU a lot of blockchain related companies are scratching their heads in how to comply with the data deletion requirements of the GDPR if you write any PII to the blockchain.

emddudley 8y ago

Previous discussion (123 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16991185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16991185