L0stRegulator

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by L0stRegulator 4y ago
Under the US CLOUD Act, three letter agencies can compel Facebook to produce user data wherever in the world it is. When any other country has a law like that, they are obviously the bad guys.
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by L0stRegulator 4y ago
TikTok doesn't operate in China. All TikTok data is stored either in the USA or Singapore. There's a Dublin data center underway. Douyin is the original TikTok. It operates exclusively in China and all it's data is in China.
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by L0stRegulator 4y ago
Let's not forget a lot of the smear campaigns against TikTok were secretly funded by Facebook/Meta https://www.engadget.com/meta-targeted-victory-tiktok-smear-...
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by L0stRegulator 4y ago
The Biometrics was collected for face overlays. Want to look like a lion? They scan your face, use their algorithm to stretch the lion face on you, and because you're moving, it's a compute intense thing so done more in the cloud
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by L0stRegulator 4y ago
Let's not forget OFAC lists, anti money laundering laws and FATCA requirements. These are driven primarily from the USA but the penalties are felt globally. Your employer likely has to get all your details to ensure you can get legally
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by L0stRegulator 4y ago
Non-paywall version of article: https://archive.ph/AyvrU
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by L0stRegulator 5y ago
ByteDance, Alphabet, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Apple BANAMMA or NABAMMA
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by L0stRegulator 5y ago
That's being encouraged by California law: either honor DNT or come up with something else: https://www.dwt.com/blogs/privacy--security-law-blog/2020/07...
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by L0stRegulator 5y ago
Yes, if the organizations are targeting consumers in the EEA (EU + a few extra countries). It's part of the reason why these companies are required to have an Article 27 EU Rep resident in the EU: to interact with regulators.
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by L0stRegulator 6y ago
The three have a lot in common, with key differentiators e.g. the backbone connectivity of GCP is far different than that of AWS. What worked for me is that I went deep into one of them, then uses this resource to 'map' what I lea
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
https://www.mashed.com/66838/secret-history-breakfast/ and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258276062_English_B...
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
To ‘protect it from rain and road debris’ of course /s
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
Or let it ‘drop off’ on an area of private property with a video camera on it. See who comes looking for it.
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
So the obvious question then is should we be allowed place trackers in police cars, so we can track them on Waze (for example), and it would be a crime for them to remove it. Equivalencies of Powers/Rights is a good thought experiment
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
There are a lot of derogations in GDPR. These could easily cover the current case in point (and the sharing of data with the UK NHS etc) "The GDPR provides several exemptions and derogations for the use of health data, e.g. in the co
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
They are different but well related 'laws'. The 'Cookie Law' is the 2011 ePrivacy Directive. it will be replaced by the ePrivacy Regulation (eventually). https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/ Th
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
Agreed. Seems like an ad-hominem. There is often a huge lag between funding, submission for publication and final publication. His interpretation of the rules would be widely agreed upon as reasonable.
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
In most EU countries: Yes. They are elected members of the Parliament who are assigned a portfolio by the prime minister. To be clear: someone elected them , in the example of Ireland a jurisdiction like Kerry would elect a number of parli
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
The issue is that if it was written down it would be well defined. There would be legal cases for clarification rather than loosely defined precedents. It's too fluffy and malleable, which can work well in good times, and very badly un
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by L0stRegulator 7y ago
This is where a written constitution is super important. The UK (or England & Wales to be specific) doesn't have one, and relies on 'constitutional conventions' (which needless to say shift in interpretation by whoever is