US media websites blocked for EU users as part of data protection

“The Chicago Times” and “LA Times” are among those who post messages saying they were currents not available to most European countries.

The General Data Protection regulator (GDPR) has given citizens of the European Union more rights than how they use their information.

The move is an effort by EU lawmakers to limit the powers of technology firms.

News websites like “Tronc” and “Lee Enterprises” were also affected by this Facebook decision, reports “BBC” Transmission Periscope.

High profile website Troc involved media such as “New York Daily News”, “Chicago Tribune”, “LA Times”, “Orlando Sentinel” and “Baltire Sun”

In their message read “Unfortunately, our websites are unavailable in many European countries. We are committed to this issue and are committed to seeing options that support the full range of digital offerings on the EU market”.

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Their statement says “Sorry. This website is unavailable. We have knowledge that you're trying to get access to this website, namely, in the European Economic Zone (EEA) including the European Union, which implements the General Information Protection Rule (GDPR) and therefore cannot provide access at this time”.

What is GDPR?

Lawmakers in Brussels have passed a new legislation in April 2016, and a whole text is available online.

Misuse or careless treatment of personal information will bring fines of up to 20m euros, or 4% of a company's global drive.

In the United Kingdom, which will leave the EU in 2019, a new data protection law will introduce GDPR provisions, with some minor changes.

All EU citizens now have the right to see what information companies have about them, and they can erase this information if they want to./Periscopi/