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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
100%. (Also, the GDPR is not responsible for cookie banners)
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> GDPR is a big block towards technological improvement. It's exactly the opposite. It forces technology to be developed in a way that protects human rights (specifically the right to privacy). Innovation is not automatically good
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
They store data in Russia, so probably . Each jurisdiction is going to be slightly different, depending on what the law regarding data protection is like in each place. Russia hasn't been deemed adequate by the Commission under the GD
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>* Transactions are final. The merchant has no risk of chargebacks. You realise that's a bad thing, right? >* Transactions are bounded. Once you walk away, the merchant cannot take more money from you. Whereas with credit cards
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Those aren't right-wing things, they're authoritarian things. Labour are, and pretty much always have been, an authoritarian party. Same with the Conservative Party.
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People don't want to run their own bank(shkspr.mobi)
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Basically accidents involve two people. Not always, no. It's perfectly possible to crash a car with nobody else around.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Well I'm in my early thirties so I'll leave that up to you to decide if that puts me in the "younger generations" bucket
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
One degree Celsius is exactly the same as one Kelvin, though.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Weight of a person is stone and lbs This one is definitely changing. Lots of people here only know their weight in kg now (including me).
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
No. And they shouldn't. The article basically boils down to "people believe in the scam so founders should embrace it because it'll make them rich". Which is hardly a new phenomena but... come on. Let's at least p
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NIF: US lab takes further step towards nuclear fusion goal(bbc.co.uk)
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
I just bought a new phone because OnePlus just stopped supporting my 6T which was released in November 2018, so for all intents and purposes 3 years ago as well. It was (well, is, I'm still using it while I await its replacement) a per
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European Commission's Open Source Programme Office Starts Bug Bounties(ec.europa.eu)
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
There's a Wikidata WikiProject all about modelling politicians[0] if you want to dive straight in to the Wikidata side of things. [0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_every_pol...
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Wikidata has qualifiers and ranks which can be added to statements that can be used for this. As an example, Barbados: (statement) head of state (P35): Queen Elizabeth II (Q9682) (qualifier) start time (P580): 30 November 1966 (qualifier) e
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>On BBC One HD I still get a blank place-holder screen for local news, advising to switch to the non-HD channel, which is just bizarre at this point, 10 years after support for HD viewing. That is changing this year!
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>If this is the case, why did the BBC vote 5 to 1 in favour of Remain[1] The Express should be considered more of a fiction publication than a reliable newspaper. It's notorious for making stuff up, especially when it comes to Brexi
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Someone who has no serious chance will be nominated as a 'stalking horse' to stand up and challenge Boris. Then the other stronger candidates will put themselves forward to 'save the name of the party'. That is how t
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
I think you're over-complicating some of these. On point 1, I think legitimate interests covers this fairly well, but it would be arguable for sure. On point 2, the right to erasure is not absolute so the fact that data are not purged
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>> European Parliament decided >You mean EU politicians decided. Well parliaments tend to have politicians as members, yes. That's generally how representative democracy works. >I want the right to use my data as I see fit,
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
The UK-EU withdrawal agreement included a transitionary adequacy agreement, in large part because the GDPR formed (and still does as the UK GDPR) part of UK law.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Banning behavioural advertising is not the same thing as banning advertising in its entirety. Newspapers, for example, survived for centuries on a mixture of subscriptions and advertising before they could snoop on their readers to decide
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Maybe so, but you do not get to decide which innovation is good and which is bad. I didn't decide, the European Parliament decided. And they made the decision to protect our (collective and individual) human rights. >We do
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
The GDPR doesn't apply to the police, at least not in their capacity as law enforcement. But it does have sister legislation - the Law Enforcement Directive[0] - that does apply many of the same principals. [0] https://eur-l
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Also, part of the reason why it's not that hard is that the GDPR is pretty much one of a kind. Imagine the US and maybe some countries in Asia having similar but different implementations of privacy laws, and you having to work wit
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>I really don't understand why countries are so persistent about storing data in their country. That's not what this is. The EU is not saying "data MUST stay in the EU", it's saying "Data can only be transfe
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
So only the rich should have their human right to privacy protected?
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>I am located in Germany, but if I would start a SAAS site today, I wouldn't try to sell to the EU. Just isn't worth the trouble. If you're located in Germany then the GDPR applies irrespective of where your users are. It
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
It would be if the EU had the legal powers to do so, however the EU's treaties reserve national security to the member states. EU law does apply when national security concerns of non member states are engaged, though hence the Schre

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