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Can the site deny your access then?
by slig 5y ago
Can the site deny your access then?
- saithir 5y agoMuch like the few US-based news sites that already decided to just not bother and show me the "you're coming from the EU and we can't be bothered to not collect your data" blank page instead. At which point I'm free to decide I wasn't interested in their content anyway.
- robin_reala 5y agoNot legally. Personal data isn’t transactional.
- YtvwlD 5y agoafaik no, but you might lose some features
- nybble41 5y agoNo. They consider that "coercion". So there really is no point in even asking, as the only correct answer is to decline. Anyone who accepts can be presumed to have been tricked into falsely thinking they would get something in exchange for granting permission.
- foxfluff 5y agoThey cannot coerce you to sign away your fundamental rights in exchange for service. If they cannot offer service without violating your rights, then the service is illegal in Europe.
- stale2002 5y agoThen the result will be that those services simply stop serving EU customers.
- foxfluff 5y agoIf legal offering for a market with half a billion people is not worth it for them, then by all means they can and probably should pull their criminal enterprise out of Europe. That just creates an opportunity for Europeans to say good riddance and perhaps start something new and worthwhile that isn't funded by exploitation.