Blocking 500M Users Easier Than Complying with GDPR

Posted on May 25, 2018

Blocking 500M Users Easier Than Complying with GDPR

For some of America’s biggest newspapers and online services, it’s easier to block half a billion people from accessing your product than comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation. With about 500 million people living in the European Union, that’s a hard ban on one-and-a-half times the population of the U.S. A&E Television Networks has narrowed its EU blockade to limit the damage to its audience. Websites for its History and Lifetime channels greet the European visitors with a message that its ‘content is not available in your area,’ whereas the website for youth-focused Viceland remains accessible.

Source: bloombergquint.com