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Ok so it’s not all EU citizens What’s more interesting to me is in the Tweet: UK made illegals copies of hundreds of millions of people’s data (since you were
by powi88nxjdi 7y ago
Ok so it’s not all EU citizens
What’s more interesting to me is in the Tweet: UK made illegals copies of hundreds of millions of people’s data (since you were mostly hung up on that, I qualified it better).
Are you seeing the interesting takeaway?
- wuliwong 7y agoHN self-polices the titles here pretty well. Correcting inaccurate titles is a regular occurrence on HN. I think it leads to a much better user experience. Wanting an accurate headline on HN does not have to conflate to a person not understanding or disagreeing with the linked content. It can just be a representation of an overall goal of the HN community to keep headlines accurate.
- miahi 7y agoAnother (small) correction: There aren't hundred of millions persons registered in the SIS. The "hundred of millions" comes from the number of EU citizens. Of course, one person's data leaked is too many, but anyway, that's how it is. Also, most of the person alerts do not have binaries (photos or fingerprints); usually only the persons that have an European Arrest Warrant do have these. I see this as more of a security issue than a privacy issue. The data in the SIS is mostly about law enforcement, meaning that a leak would expose that a person is wanted (some of the person searches are undercover, and the data also covers a person's aliases - so if a "bad" person has access to the data it can react) and also, the SIS data is a "living" organism - using a copy (snapshot) of the data in a law enforcement activity is actually unlawful - if the snapshot is old it means that you cannot find a person that was added yesterday and also that you will find a person that was "cleared" yesterday.