Amusingly my voluntary subscription was just under the cut-off amount and I cancelled it as soon as this came in. I bought a subscription to The Economist instead.
Did they really already get rid of all the laws EU enforced upon them before they left? One would think it'd take a decade at least, but I guess things can move fast when the government really wants to.
The way regulation works in the EU is typically EU comes up with regulation for countries to implement, then they implement the laws via their national system, then everything is handled "locally". So just leaving the EU doesn't mean that all of those things just stop being active, you need to go through the process of removing the local laws before.
That's non-compliant with GDPR. When shown to EU readers, they cannot block access based on accepting a privacy policy. Only essential cookies that really are needed for it to function are required.
UK site. Not in the EU any more.
They're doing business in the EU.
Amusingly my voluntary subscription was just under the cut-off amount and I cancelled it as soon as this came in. I bought a subscription to The Economist instead.
Reminds me of when a newspaper I subscribed to went from no-paywall to a soft paywall.
When I called to cancel and gave my reason as the paywall, they were very confused, but I knew what I was doing.
Did they really already get rid of all the laws EU enforced upon them before they left? One would think it'd take a decade at least, but I guess things can move fast when the government really wants to.
The way regulation works in the EU is typically EU comes up with regulation for countries to implement, then they implement the laws via their national system, then everything is handled "locally". So just leaving the EU doesn't mean that all of those things just stop being active, you need to go through the process of removing the local laws before.
They did not. The rules are still basically the same just from a practicality point of view.
Have seen this in EU sites too. It seems to be a grey area at present.
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... or no one bothers to enforce them any more?
UK gov is too busy enforcing the death of anonymity online anyway.
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Why wouldn't they be allowed to do it?
You have the choice of not viewing the website.
That's non-compliant with GDPR. When shown to EU readers, they cannot block access based on accepting a privacy policy. Only essential cookies that really are needed for it to function are required.
Facebook also does this.
But the EU posted a press release last year that they are investigating this, as it could breach the DMA. [1]
The Guardian doesn't fall under the DMA though.
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
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There's been some GDPR-related rulings in EU courts which seem to be allowing this kind of thing at least by some interpretations.