The PlayStation adventure game, The Last of Us Part 2, seems to have been blocked from release in multiple Middle Eastern countries.
The game is due to launch globally on June 19, but currently does not appear among the listings for the Saudi
Arabia and United Arab Emirates versions of the PlayStation Store.
PlayStation Support is reported saying that any game that does not appear in a regional store has been banned by the competent authorities of the country.
No reason for the ban has
been published, but the game features nudity, sexual content and LGBT themes, any of these would be enough for a ban in these middle east countries.
Court tells grandma that she should have registered as a data controller and produced a risk assessment document before posting a picture of her grandchildren on social media
The GDPR is a reprehensible and bureaucratic law that is impossible to fully comply with, and dictates an onerous process of risk assessments that are enforced by inspection and audits. It is not the sort of thing that you would wish on your grandmother.
So the law makers built in an important exclusion such that the law does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the exercise of a purely personal or household activity.
But now a Dutch court has weighed in and decided that
this important exclusion does not applying to posting family pictures on the likes of Twitter.
The court got involved in a family dispute between a grandmother who wanted to post pictures of her grand children on social against the wishes of the
mother.
The court decided that the posting of pictures for public consumption on social media went beyond 'purely personal or household activity'. The details weren't fully worked out, but the court judgement suggested that they may have taken a
different view had the pictures been posted to a more restricted audience, say to Facebook friends only. But saying that such nuance doesn't apply to Twitter where posts are by default public.
The outcome of the case was that the grandmother was
therefore in the wrong and has been ordered to remove the pictures from her social media accounts.
But the horrible outcome of this court judgement is that anyone posting pictures of private individuals to Twitter must now register as a data
controller, so requiring submission to the full bureaucratic nightmare that is the GDPR.
PlayerUnknown's Battleground is a 2017 South Korea Battle Royale by PUBG Corporation.
The game made the news in spring 2019 when it was banned in Nepal, Jordan, Iraq and parts of India. In Pakistan calls for a ban were directed to the
courts and so the country is a little behind the curve.
A petition filed in the Lahore High Court stated that the players of the online game were facing psychological problems like lack of decision-making capabilities and social relations, as well as
taking them aside from their academic activities and creating violent behaviour.
The court responded on 18thh May 2020 by rather passing the buck to Pakistan's internet censors. The court seems to have agreed with the petitioner that the game should
be banned but has ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to take the final decision within 6 weeks.
The GDPR is a reprehensible and bureaucratic law that is impossible to fully comply with, and dictates an onerous process of risk assessments that are enforced by inspection and audits. It is not the sort of thing that you would wish on your grandmother.
So the law makers built in an important exclusion such that the law does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the exercise of a purely personal or household activity. 
