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Instapaper europe2/18/2023 ![]() ![]() The product’s privacy policy is one of the clearer T&Cs we’ve seen. “We’re really sorry for any inconvenience, and we are actively working on bringing the service back online for residents in Europe,” it added. In a customer support email that we reviewed, the company also told one European user: “We’ve been advised to undergo an assessment of the Instapaper service to determine what, if any, changes may be appropriate but to restrict access to IP addresses in the EU as the best course of action.” But he declined to specify exactly what it feels its compliance issue is - saying only: “We’re actively working to resolve the issue.” In an exchange on Twitter, Pinterest product engineering manager Brian Donohue - who, prior to acquisition was Instapaper’s CEO - flagged that the product’s privacy policy “hasn’t been changed in several years”. We’ve reached out to Pinterest with questions and will update this story with any response. It’s also had plenty of time to prepare to be compliant - given the new framework was agreed at the back end of 2015. So it’s not clear exactly why Instapaper believes it needs to pause its service to European users. ![]() And any major fines are only going to hit the most serious violations and violators - and only down the line when data protection authorities have received complaints and conducted thorough investigations. That said, EU regulators are clearly going to tread softly on the enforcement front in the short term. So it significantly ramps up the risk of, for example, having sloppy security, or consent flows that aren’t clear and specific enough (if indeed consent is the legal basis you’re relying on for processing people’s personal information). The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation updates the bloc’s privacy framework, most notably by bringing in supersized fines for data violations, which in the most serious cases can scale up to 4% of a company’s global annual turnover. WTF is instapaper doing with data? /eG2dhtkvnd Instapaper’s notification does not say how long the self-imposed outage will last. is still “free” - except that you must be able to inform the user of the extend of- and destroy that data within a “reasonable” timeframe if requested to do so.Remember Instapaper? The Pinterest-owned, read-it-later bookmarking service is taking a break in Europe - apparently while it works on achieving compliance with the region’s updated privacy framework, GDPR, which will start being applied from tomorrow. I didn’t know that Spain is especially harsh - I know that Germany and Denmark are though it’s not thoroughly (enough) enforced in Denmark.Ĭompanies are required to hand over data if the user demands so - not until then - but the interesting part is that no one is allowed to process personal data (such as religious or political stand, union memberships, sexual orientation - and anything other obscurable information that might be used for group persecution) they don’t absolutely need to in order to provide their services (plus users must be let known that processing is taking place and explicitly agree to this), and they must prove themselves able to correctly handle security revolving this data.Ĭomon data such as eye color, shoe size, preferred season etc. On Wednesday, Apple launched a new Data & Privacy website, which provides customers in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland with the ability to download all the personal information tied to their Apple ID account.Īrticle Link: Instapaper Service Temporarily Suspended in Europe Due to GDPRĬlick to expand.Wait isn’t that exactly what I was saying only in fewer words? Companies who fail to do so by the deadline risk heavy fines. The service was acquired by Pinterest in 2016, which may have complicated efforts for GDPR compliance given the potential for data sharing between the parent company and its subsidiary.īusinesses that interact with users in the EU must comply with the GDPR law, which sets out requirements on the collection, storage, and handling of personal data. Click to expand.Instapaper gave no indication how long the service would be suspended, and offered no further details on why it has waited until now to take action, almost two years after companies were informed of the GDPR timeline.Ĭreated by Marco Arment in 2008, Instapaper was one of the first apps that implemented read-it-later functionality, and it was certainly one of the most widely used and well-known apps in the genre. ![]()
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