US sites block users in Europe: Why are they ghosting EU? It's not you, it's GDPR

US sites block users in Europe: Why are they ghosting EU? It's not you, it's GDPR

6 years ago
Anonymous $CLwNLde341

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/tronc_chicago_tribune_la_times_gdpr_lock_out_eu_users/

Users trying to read the NY Daily News, say, or the Chicago Tribune – the third-biggest US daily newspaper – from a location within the EU have been blocked from visiting their websites due to new data protection laws.

Visitors in the bloc trying to load articles from the Tribune, or stablemates the Los Angeles Times – the fifth-biggest daily – and the Orlando Sentinel are shown the same error message from publisher Tronc.