Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-22224-20180521161245/@comment-4053809-20180522133210

OneTwoThreeFall wrote: Jenburton wrote: ... We comply with the GDPR by doing the following: Anonymising user data of EU residents on their request, providing a method by which EU users can decline cookies, and by providing a way for interested users to download their data. All of these options are scheduled to go live today. Why only EU users, just out of interest? I understand that the regulation only requires you provide such options/services to EU residents, but it seems like it would involve more work to specifically exclude non-EU residents from using these new options, than to allow any user to use them. To be honest, we would prefer not to have much of the site filled with anonymized usernames and such which is what I expect would happen if we made this a global offering. This isn't an optimal change for us so we decided not to make these changes global. The ability to download data, however, is available to any logged in user regardless of residence.