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Discussion on: Why is everyone upgrading their UA and PP?

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Stephanie Handsteiner • Edited

Because, as of today, the new General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union is in effect. It has nothing to do with net neutrality. It gives people residing in the EEA (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein, Iceland) more control over their personal data. :)

Some companies apply the EUs rules to all of their users (reddit, Facebook (broadly speaking :D), ...), some decided to (temporarily) lock out all users with EU IP's (¯\_(ツ)_/¯), some apply GDPR for EU residents only.

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Divyesh Parmar

Ohhh this was raised here in Indian media too a month back, but here we are so much busy to pull each others leg out with World's biggest scam of Aadhar card (like SSN social security number in USA) I think is EU is really stepping up their standards.

You response was the only thing I was able to understand. Thank you so much and sorry to others