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> which the Jitsi developers apparently consider to be fine I expected the devs in the link to get caught saying something like "Yolo! Move fast and break thin
by brownbat 6y ago
> which the Jitsi developers apparently consider to be fine
I expected the devs in the link to get caught saying something like "Yolo! Move fast and break things!"
Instead they had a pretty reasonable response considering the circumstances.
You don't have to use the app stores you don't like to use the service, they don't actually seek or store personal data, they don't use any data they do have for marketing, the use of those services falls under an identified GPDR exception, the other services they rely on for the service also have GPDR obligations with respect to any data they should collect, etc.
But even after all that, the devs realized they aren't professional lawyers. So what do they do? Ignore it all? No, they hire some. What did those lawyers say? Looks good, looks compliant.
So you've hired counsel, they say, "Good job, green light." Then someone on GitHub says, "But I have a different legal theory than the people you specifically hired to tell you how the law works!"
What do you tell someone in that situation? Fire your counsel and instead rely on advice from random strangers on the internet? Or... there are a lot of people with crazy theories on the internet.
I thought it was big of emcho to, even seeming pretty confident Alvar was mistaken, still put him in touch with his legal team. Because, I'm not a professional GPDR expert, maybe the random internet stranger is right this time? But if Alvar's right, GitHub isn't really equipped to figure that out. This has to be a conversation with lawyers.
Backing up a step...
Zoom rolls their own crypto, routes calls through China, and has a mysterious 10 char hard limit on passwords. They're also massively more popular.
Zoom's CEO has been admirably up front about how they're fixing some of these issues, but I'm not sure why a speculative GPDR complaint about a much less common service should get the same prominent media coverage.