Websites had two years to get ready for the GDPR. But rather than comply, about a third of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers have instead chosen to block European visitors to their sites.
We’re seeing what publishers have decided to implement on their websites as of May 25 — whether they’ve decided to block European Union and European Economic Area-based traffic outright, set up buckets of consent for readers to click through, or done something simpler (or nothing new at all).
Plus: Problems with the First Amendment, fact-checking the fact-checkers, and how partisan newspapers’ circulations change depending on who’s in power.
“When they wrote to us on Facebook Messenger to get the subscription, we got the feeling that this marked a big shift in their lives — going from teens to adults.”
“For a soft power approach to disinformation to work, it is critical that all stakeholders do in fact work together…If it fails, cruder responses may be the only ones left. But let’s hope not.”
Data-driven news stories produced by members of the European Data Journalism Network are translated into English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish and then made available for free to all partner and non-partner news organizations.
Cafébabel’s articles — all of which are available in multiple languages — inhabit a Europe where Italians might care about a climate policy issue in Portugal or Spaniards might be interested in an up-and-coming artist from Switzerland.
Schmidt, Christine. "The European Union’s new data privacy rules will make companies worldwide clean up their online security, or else." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 1 Aug. 2017. Web. 21 May. 2019.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2017, Aug. 1). The European Union’s new data privacy rules will make companies worldwide clean up their online security, or else. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 21, 2019, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/the-european-unions-new-data-privacy-rules-will-make-companies-worldwide-clean-up-their-online-security-or-else/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "The European Union’s new data privacy rules will make companies worldwide clean up their online security, or else." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 1, 2017. Accessed May 21, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/the-european-unions-new-data-privacy-rules-will-make-companies-worldwide-clean-up-their-online-security-or-else/.
Wikipedia
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