BRUSSELS: The EU's flagship new data protection rules got here into effect on Friday however hit an early hitch as several main US news web sites had been blocked to European customers.
The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune newspapers had been amongst those inaccessible on the different facet of the Atlantic following the creation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Separately Facebook and Google already face their first professional complaints underneath the new regulation after an Austrian privateness campaigner accused them of effectively forcing customers to provide their consent to the usage of their non-public information.
The EU has billed the GDPR as the most important shake-up of data privateness laws since the start of the internet, saying it units new standards in the wake of the new Facebook data harvesting scandal.
But it has additionally been blamed for a flood of emails and messages in recent weeks as fearful corporations rush to request the express consent of customers.
It ended in the hashtag #HappyGDPRDay starting up on social media as people mockingly celebrated the top of the deluge of unsolicited mail.
Even regardless that the rules had been formally followed two years ago, with a grace duration until now to conform to them, companies have been slow to act, leading to a last-minute scramble this week.
Companies will also be fined up to 20 million euros ($24 million) or 4 % of annual world turnover for breaching the stern new data rules for the EU, a market of 500 million people.
Several corporations skilled real-world issues over complying with the EU rules, with US newspapers owned via the Tronc team, formerly known as Tribune Publishing, saying that they had been blocked to Europeans for now.
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries," said the message carried via the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun and Orlando Sentinel.
"We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."
Local US newspapers owned via Lee Enterprises, together with the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Arizona Daily Sun, had been additionally out of achieve, explicitly blaming the GDPR.
The European Commission insisted that it used to be no longer accountable for the blackout of some US websites, saying it used to be "proud to set high data protection standards" for the bloc's 500 million citizens.
"We have seen the press reports, but it is not for the commission to comment on individual companies' policies in terms of offering services in the EU," a spokesman said in an emailed comment to AFP.
"We expect all companies to fully comply with the General Data Protection Regulation as of today. With the new rules in place, EU data protection authorities will watch over their correct application across the EU and ensure full compliance."
Meanwhile campaigner Max Schrems said he had launched 4 professional complaints with nationwide regulatory authorities on Friday underneath the new regulation.
They target Google in France, picture-sharing website online Instagram in Belgium, WhatsApp in Germany and Facebook in his local Austria.
He said the problem with a majority of these websites used to be pop u.s.that have appeared in recent weeks, asking customers to conform to new phrases of use, including that this amounted to a gadget of "forced consent" from customers.
A prior case introduced via Schrems against Facebook induced the collapse of a prior EU-US data sharing agreement.
Brussels says the new rules put Europeans "back in control" in their data.
"When it comes to personal data today, people are naked in an aquarium," said EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter that "with the GDPR we are building a European sovereignty on data".
The regulation says people should explicitly grant permission for their data for use. It additionally establishes their "right to know" who is processing their information and what it is going to be used for; and gives them the "right to be forgotten".
Parents will make a decision for children until they achieve the age of consent, which member states will set anywhere between 13 and 16 years previous.
The case for the new rules has been boosted via the new scandal over the harvesting of Facebook customers' data via Cambridge Analytica, a US-British political analysis company, for the 2016 US presidential election.
Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg said as he apologised to the European Parliament on Tuesday over the scandal that his company could be "fully compliant" with the EU regulation.
The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune newspapers had been amongst those inaccessible on the different facet of the Atlantic following the creation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Separately Facebook and Google already face their first professional complaints underneath the new regulation after an Austrian privateness campaigner accused them of effectively forcing customers to provide their consent to the usage of their non-public information.
The EU has billed the GDPR as the most important shake-up of data privateness laws since the start of the internet, saying it units new standards in the wake of the new Facebook data harvesting scandal.
But it has additionally been blamed for a flood of emails and messages in recent weeks as fearful corporations rush to request the express consent of customers.
It ended in the hashtag #HappyGDPRDay starting up on social media as people mockingly celebrated the top of the deluge of unsolicited mail.
Even regardless that the rules had been formally followed two years ago, with a grace duration until now to conform to them, companies have been slow to act, leading to a last-minute scramble this week.
Companies will also be fined up to 20 million euros ($24 million) or 4 % of annual world turnover for breaching the stern new data rules for the EU, a market of 500 million people.
Several corporations skilled real-world issues over complying with the EU rules, with US newspapers owned via the Tronc team, formerly known as Tribune Publishing, saying that they had been blocked to Europeans for now.
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries," said the message carried via the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun and Orlando Sentinel.
"We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."
Local US newspapers owned via Lee Enterprises, together with the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Arizona Daily Sun, had been additionally out of achieve, explicitly blaming the GDPR.
The European Commission insisted that it used to be no longer accountable for the blackout of some US websites, saying it used to be "proud to set high data protection standards" for the bloc's 500 million citizens.
"We have seen the press reports, but it is not for the commission to comment on individual companies' policies in terms of offering services in the EU," a spokesman said in an emailed comment to AFP.
"We expect all companies to fully comply with the General Data Protection Regulation as of today. With the new rules in place, EU data protection authorities will watch over their correct application across the EU and ensure full compliance."
Meanwhile campaigner Max Schrems said he had launched 4 professional complaints with nationwide regulatory authorities on Friday underneath the new regulation.
They target Google in France, picture-sharing website online Instagram in Belgium, WhatsApp in Germany and Facebook in his local Austria.
He said the problem with a majority of these websites used to be pop u.s.that have appeared in recent weeks, asking customers to conform to new phrases of use, including that this amounted to a gadget of "forced consent" from customers.
A prior case introduced via Schrems against Facebook induced the collapse of a prior EU-US data sharing agreement.
Brussels says the new rules put Europeans "back in control" in their data.
"When it comes to personal data today, people are naked in an aquarium," said EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter that "with the GDPR we are building a European sovereignty on data".
The regulation says people should explicitly grant permission for their data for use. It additionally establishes their "right to know" who is processing their information and what it is going to be used for; and gives them the "right to be forgotten".
Parents will make a decision for children until they achieve the age of consent, which member states will set anywhere between 13 and 16 years previous.
The case for the new rules has been boosted via the new scandal over the harvesting of Facebook customers' data via Cambridge Analytica, a US-British political analysis company, for the 2016 US presidential election.
Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg said as he apologised to the European Parliament on Tuesday over the scandal that his company could be "fully compliant" with the EU regulation.
US websites blacked out in Europe on 'Happy GDPR Day'
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