Just as an FYI - Over the weekend, my access to VolQuest/Rivals was blocked when attempting to access the site from Europe. At first, I thought this might be attributed to maintenance or updates on the Rivals side. I contacted Rivals on Monday after not being able to access the site over the weekend. Here is the reply I received from Rivals Technical Support ...
Maybe someone could shed some light on this topic. As an Ex-Pat, I'm not keen on having to configure/re-configure network settings or utilize an additional VPN service just to access the site. Is this a trend we'll begin seeing on other sites as well? Thanks in advance.
I am really sorry for the inconvenience this issue has caused to you. To keep you informed that this is unfortunately due to a new European Union law (called GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation) that is about to go into effect. This new regulation has extremely strict and complicated requirements for handling European Union residents' user data, privacy, etc. that we can't easily comply with, and the penalty for each infraction is substantial (up to $20 million per infraction). Therefore we are required to block all traffic from EU countries. We will gladly refund the full price of a current subscription for anyone permanently located within the EU."
As you are temporarily visiting or traveling, you can use a service called a VPN (virtual private network) which is basically a tunnel for internet traffic between the user's computer and another computer somewhere else in the world. This encrypts all data and pipes it through the destination computer, making the user's origin appear as that computer, instead of your actual location.
As you are temporarily visiting or traveling, you can use a service called a VPN (virtual private network) which is basically a tunnel for internet traffic between the user's computer and another computer somewhere else in the world. This encrypts all data and pipes it through the destination computer, making the user's origin appear as that computer, instead of your actual location.
Maybe someone could shed some light on this topic. As an Ex-Pat, I'm not keen on having to configure/re-configure network settings or utilize an additional VPN service just to access the site. Is this a trend we'll begin seeing on other sites as well? Thanks in advance.
