Rivails.com blocked in the EU

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I haven't been able to access the Seton Hall board, etc. so I emailed Rivals (now owner by Yahoo) and they confirmed they are not allowing EU residents onto their sites. What a crock. I guess they are protecting their butt in case they have another data breach. It's a good thing the UK is leaving the EU soon. Their response:

I'd like to inform you that this is unfortunately due to a new European Union law (called GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation) that is about to go into effect. This new regulation has extremely strict and complicated requirements for handling European Union residents' user data, privacy, etc. that we can't easily comply with, and the penalty for each infraction is substantial (up to $20 million per infraction). Therefore we are required to block all traffic from EU countries.
 
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[quote="gman" post=281460]I haven't been able to access the Seton Hall board, etc. so I emailed Rivals (now owner by Yahoo) and they confirmed they are not allowing EU residents onto their sites. What a crock. Their response:

I'd like to inform you that this is unfortunately due to a new European Union law (called GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation) that is about to go into effect. This new regulation has extremely strict and complicated requirements for handling European Union residents' user data, privacy, etc. that we can't easily comply with, and the penalty for each infraction is substantial (up to $20 million per infraction). Therefore we are required to block all traffic from EU countries.[/quote]

GDPR is a pretty big deal right now and a lot of companies are scrambling to comply. But most likely a Yahoo level company knows exactly what they need to do but because they are using user data to sell to advertisers and otherwise, they are making a business decision to not comply and simply block EU traffic since most of their money is on US traffic. I suspect that what will happen is that a lot of companies make this choice and then as happens in the Middle East, China and elsewhere, that end users will use proxie providers to access US based content.
 
[quote="Paul Massell" post=281462][quote="gman" post=281460]I haven't been able to access the Seton Hall board, etc. so I emailed Rivals (now owner by Yahoo) and they confirmed they are not allowing EU residents onto their sites. What a crock. Their response:

I'd like to inform you that this is unfortunately due to a new European Union law (called GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation) that is about to go into effect. This new regulation has extremely strict and complicated requirements for handling European Union residents' user data, privacy, etc. that we can't easily comply with, and the penalty for each infraction is substantial (up to $20 million per infraction). Therefore we are required to block all traffic from EU countries.[/quote]

GDPR is a pretty big deal right now and a lot of companies are scrambling to comply. But most likely a Yahoo level company knows exactly what they need to do but because they are using user data to sell to advertisers and otherwise, they are making a business decision to not comply and simply block EU traffic since most of their money is on US traffic. I suspect that what will happen is that a lot of companies make this choice and then as happens in the Middle East, China and elsewhere, that end users will use proxie providers to access US based content.[/quote]

I hadn't heard of it until now. Now how am I supposed to listen to the insane Seton Hall fans complain about Williard after every loss?
 
[quote="gman" post=281468][quote="Paul Massell" post=281462][quote="gman" post=281460]I haven't been able to access the Seton Hall board, etc. so I emailed Rivals (now owner by Yahoo) and they confirmed they are not allowing EU residents onto their sites. What a crock. Their response:

I'd like to inform you that this is unfortunately due to a new European Union law (called GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation) that is about to go into effect. This new regulation has extremely strict and complicated requirements for handling European Union residents' user data, privacy, etc. that we can't easily comply with, and the penalty for each infraction is substantial (up to $20 million per infraction). Therefore we are required to block all traffic from EU countries.[/quote]

GDPR is a pretty big deal right now and a lot of companies are scrambling to comply. But most likely a Yahoo level company knows exactly what they need to do but because they are using user data to sell to advertisers and otherwise, they are making a business decision to not comply and simply block EU traffic since most of their money is on US traffic. I suspect that what will happen is that a lot of companies make this choice and then as happens in the Middle East, China and elsewhere, that end users will use proxie providers to access US based content.[/quote]

I hadn't heard of it until now. Now how am I supposed to listen to the insane Seton Hall fans complain about Williard after every loss?[/quote]
Keep your windows open and you should be able to hear them.
 
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