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"We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time."

Oooh, wait until they hear about CCPA... (but anyway, I'm sure the 'secret GPS pings' are just plain-old stealth SMS, and we're all better off not reading TFA in any case)

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> I'm sure the 'secret GPS pings' are just plain-old stealth SMS

Worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28991641 (depending on the carrier)

And look who takes the cake again this time: "Sprint offered the cheapest prices to report locations back to law enforcement, charging a flat fee of $100 per month."

No, it looks like a 2 years location dragnet warrant issued against someone for merely being around someone experiencing an overdose. IMO, this should be completely unconstitutional.

Where is it stated that he was tracked for 2 years?

It doesn't, it says 30 days and renewable by the court.

which if allowed in perpetuality sounds an awful lot like a general warrant.

I never understood these concerns in the US, for US web sites. What do they even care about our laws?

If there was a US law stating something similar for people connecting connecting to my French site from the US I would just smile and live on. I do not expect the CIA to kidnap me and bring me in front of a US court.

They may do business in the EU, want to have that option at a later point, or may want to make it easy to be acquired by a multinational company.

Or it’s just a low-effort CYA move recommended by a lawyer.

> They may do business in the EU, want to have that option at a later point, or may want to make it easy to be acquired by a multinational company.

This is a possibility though I have usually seen these blocking pages on small, local web sites.

Specifically, only on "independent local" news sites. I have to wonder if they, or the entity who operates the website on their behalf, all belong to the same multinational. Like the "independent local" TV stations that are all owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.

I can't think of any other reason that so many local news sites would be affected, and so few other sites.

Most of these local news sites with the same corporate owner all have the same site reskined for locality. So it would make sense they all behave the same way.

If the CIA were to kidnap you, I doubt it would be so they could bring you in to face a US court. It would be some site totally not on the map in a country with a higher tolerance to see if you can breath with water in your lungs.

> Oooh, wait until they hear about CCPA...

Actually Virginia has its own data privacy law now, modelled on CCPA.

So an article about corporates violating our privacy doesn't comply with laws on privacy?

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