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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>As to the practicality of suing for violations, how would you quantify "damaged suffered" from saving a cookie in my browser? The GDPR does not regulate cookies at all, at least unless they are a form of processing of personal
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
The clue's in the name, it's the General Data Protection Regulation. The idea is to provide a high level of data protection in general . It's not just an internet/engineering law. It applies exactly the same in an o
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Administrative penalties (those levelled by the supervisory authorities) do go to the state, but one can receive compensation for damages caused by infringement of rights under the Regulation.
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> I don't think you really "sue" anyone for breaching GDPR. I think you report it to the local authorities, and then they pursue a case. You can. Article 79 explicitly states that data subjects have a "right to an eff
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
The GDPR does not require websites to inform users that a website sets cookies. There is nothing in the GDPR about cookies. It's the ePrivacy Directive[0] that deals with cookies (or, rather, "[storing] information or to gain[in
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We once added internationalisation to our app. Being British developers, our English was British English so that's what was in the language picker. We had a very angry American (presumably) who accused us of "cultural imperialism&
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Calling Russia's war against Ukraine a "war" is speech that Russians in Russia need anonymity for right now . And that's not banned by Twitter.
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https://nitter.net/Carnage4Life/status/1499714921726046213
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> They could still block based on SNI. I've heard from one target of blocking that this is how blocking is being done.
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Yandex Warns Debt May Affect Ability to Continue Operating(searchenginejournal.com)
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Towards a unified theory of web performance(infrequently.org)
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They have been constantly battling Russian/Russian backed forces in Donbass as well. That's going to have given them valuable experience over the last 8 years.
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The veto is not absolute. UN General Assembly Resolution 377,[0] also known as the "uniting for peace" resolution, allows the UNGA to act in a special session where the use of a veto in the Security Council means it fails to act.
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I wouldn't expect that to last long; Switzerland have said they're planning to join the list of countries sanctioning the Russian regime.
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Solutions That Create Problems(ez.substack.com)
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Germany did that
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When you take a look at the job market in totality, hardly anybody is paid in anything other than salary.
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Cookie banners have nothing to do with the GDPR. They are a requirement of the ePrivacy Directive from 2002.
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The GDPR applies to everything outside of purely personal/household activities - it's not limited to websites.
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>Switching to more productive crops wouldn't end subsidies. In face, we'd - at first - need more I don't think anyone arguing that subsidies in general are bad, just that subsidising corn is bad...
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What the hell are you going on about?
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No, I said different and I meant different.
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Recitals play two roles in EU law: 1. They are the legal justification for legislating; The EU is not sovereign, so it cannot legislate of its own accord, the EU must show that the legal powers flow from the treaties. So recitals set out wh
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>No one you know has been sent to prison over TV licences. Nobody ever gets sent to prison for not having a TV licence. It is not an imprisonable offence. People occasionally get sent to prison for refusing to pay the court-ordered fi
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>It's only ok if you self-host on a server in the EU, right? In the EU/EEA or in a jurisdiction that has adequate level of data protection.
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> Then you should get out more and talk to some real people. There's a difference between it being a concern for everyone and everyone being concerned by it.
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Being the number 2 (or three if China overtakes) is still not exactly a weak position to be in...
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It's not defined, because it depends on why you're processing the data. Different reasons would entail different retention times.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Also wondering if there is a way to agree to storing my data in the us. Consent is always a valid legal basis for the processing, or transfer, of data. But it has to be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.
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>The market responding to the law with billions of cookie banners was as predictable as prohibition leading to bootlegging. And now the regulators are responding to it.[0] [0] https://www.iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-r

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