Posted on 05/26/2018 12:18:43 AM PDT by Bob434
Been getting a lot of emails lately indicating that certain sites are 'updating their privacy laws' in order to be in compliance with new European privacy law. Anyone else been getting a lot of these emails lately? The Websites I'm getting them from I believe mostly are US based sites which makes me curious about why they are updating their policies to comply with the EU privacy laws?
Will the EU be policing websites and comments sections now looking for ‘hate speech’ like FB does? (Ie- looking to censor conservative voices)
https://hbr.org/2018/05/how-gdpr-will-transform-digital-marketing
“How GDPR Will Transform Digital Marketing”
Just from microsoft outlook e- mail
thanks for that link- will have to look that over tomorrow- it’s 4:00 am right now lol- my brain is tired-
Yes, I’ve been getting them also.
What happened here is that GDPR fell into place (200-page EU regulation). Everytime that anyone (in China, the US, Mexico, Finland, etc) prints a story or article....when anyone from the EU hits the story....they (the reader from an EU country) will either hit a site which may or may not be complying (maybe by accident even), or they are hitting a warning message by the EU that they can’t read the site because of a lack of compliance.
I would regard this as a test phase where the EU proves that they can force newspapers, social media sites, or whatever....that they have to comply with the EU standards. Once proven successful...you will see yearly attempts to control the brand or message.
If you were wondering why so many Brits were pro-BREXIT....well...this is one of the reasons.
If I understood the article ..... my interpretation remained as was .... want privacy ??? Sorry online does not offer privacy only piracy
Nice place to visit. But not to comply with.
As a courtesy, US sites should stress that their EULAs are US-specific, and acceptance of same consents to US law, not Eurotwit law.
1. Because many of their sites/routes are not located in the USA
2. You might access their sites when abroad...
One thing is certain, these rules are not about protecting anyone’s privacy.
I got this warning from an online jigsaw puzzle site that I go to...a jigsaw puzzle...states it has to comply with the EU...
“”...why they are updating their policies to comply with the EU privacy laws?””
I guess there is a reason for it to be called the
World Wide web
GDPR - Do a web search. I’ve only looked at it briefly. However, several “news” sources such as the LA Times, IIRC, have blocked the EU from their websites.
Entities such as Google, Facebook etc. already face lawsuits over privacy violations. Hence it appears that some changes will be made before the sites will be open to EU.
At least that was the impression I got from a very limited review of an article about it.
It is mainly about whether the site is allowed to sell your info to other companies or not. The new EU law says that the EU citizens can refuse to allow selling their info and now the sites have to ask for permission.
I live in the EU. Changes are different. For example the web version of the USA Today magazine now shows a limited page to me. Twitter asked me (because they had to) if I am okay with them selling my info to third parties and I answered no.
Sounds like a good thing to me, then. Social Networks shouldn’t be taking a person’s info and selling it to corporations - it was creepy that Zuck and that ilk thought it was ok to do that - JMO.
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