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> the eight-year-old General Data Protection Regulation Wow. It's actually only been enforced for six years but that time absolutely flew by.
by patrickmcnamara 2y ago
> the eight-year-old General Data Protection Regulation
Wow. It's actually only been enforced for six years but that time absolutely flew by.
- LAC-Tech 2y agoRemember when local US companies with zero EU presence were geo-blocking EU visitors in-case they were found to be in-violation of the GDPR? Presumably the fear was a crack team of EU secret service agents would kidnap and illegally extradite them to stand trial in Brussels.
- Hamuko 2y agoYou mean remember the thing that is still very much a thing? I also occasionally get geo-blocked by Japanese websites too.
- Kwpolska 2y ago> in-case they were found to be in-violation of the GDPR Oh, they definitely are. Those geo-blocks still exist, not only for small mom-n-pop businesses.
- switch007 2y agoOh dear you're going to trigger the pro EU crowd who don't like being told EU law doesn't apply in the US
- jnurmine 2y agoWhat really amazes me is how a random high-profile website has like 400+ "partners" listed in the cookie dialogs. Each one is building a profile of people in various ways based on the site usage, and internet usage in general. Where does all that information go? What is the information used for in the end? The tracking technologies enable many things, and the continuum from "to show you interest-based ads" to full-on Stasi is rather large. But given the massive scale of tracking and profile-building, at least I have no idea exactly where we are now (though clearly we're not at the worst-case extreme).