Norway Probes U.S., U.K. Companies for Alleged Privacy Breaches

Norway’s privacy regulator said it is investigating Disqus, a U.S.-based blog hosting service, and Tamoco, a location information provider in the U.K., for possible violations of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation.

The regulator said it’s following up on a report by state-funded broadcaster NRK that found San Francisco-based Disqus excluded three nations from a privacy setting designed specifically for users covered by the European law.

It’s also investigating a separate NRK report on how journalists were able to identify some individuals by combining supposedly anonymized Tamoco data collected from cellphone and tablet apps with other factors, such as addresses ...