Re:Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches
by guitarbill on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:30PM
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I'm not sure I buy that. It really comes down to the question of why do small, local US news sites care about the GDPR at all? I can think of three reasons:
1. They are actually all owned by a multi-national entity that is scared of the GDPR because it also operates in Europe
2. The news sites and their owner(s) aren't bothered; but the ad networks are. Maybe it's a "cross-contamination" issue. So they say something like "to keep using us, block European visitors, we'll provide that capability", and the news sites are probably fine with it because European visitors are a tiny fraction
3. It's a political statement, not an actual GDPR issue
1. They are actually all owned by a multi-national entity that is scared of the GDPR because it also operates in Europe
2. The news sites and their owner(s) aren't bothered; but the ad networks are. Maybe it's a "cross-contamination" issue. So they say something like "to keep using us, block European visitors, we'll provide that capability", and the news sites are probably fine with it because European visitors are a tiny fraction
3. It's a political statement, not an actual GDPR issue