M2Ys4U

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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>The clause attempting to oust the jurisdiction of the courts, on the other hand, would require something a lot more vigorous. I don't know whether a clause like yours would be sufficient, but if judges can find a way around it they
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Indeed you're correct, and even orbiter dicta in the Supreme Court (nee House of Lords Appellate Committee) has suggested that Parliamentary Sovereignty is not as solid as one might suggest. However, that's never formed part of
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Assuming they're allowed to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court, of course. The Court of Appeal would be the next step.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Warnings were sent in 2019 and early 2020 as well, just in case there was no withdrawal agreement concluded.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>They cancelled .eu domains for all registrants who reside in the UK, irrespective of their citizenship. No, they didn't. Eurid have sent out several notifications telling registrants what to do if they are still eligible to have a
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
If I were you I'd go have a talk with your union rep, especially as this is impacting multiple teams. They can then raise this higher up the management chain.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>But technology should be about the code. Should it? Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum, it is used by people . Ignoring that fact doesn't make the ethical implication of the technology magically go away.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
They already do. I was looking at a sensor package (light, temp, humidity, particulates) earlier and it comes with a cellular modem and a free SIM with a modest data allowance for 2 years to send readings to the cloud.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
I think it's worth remembering that the term meritocracy was created as satire . The Rise of the Meritocracy , where it was first used, is an explicitly dystopian novel.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> The EU can say this all they want, but the reality is it has zero teeth for any organization conducting business outside the EU, with no actual presence in the EU. Perhaps not, but the EU is the world's second-largest economy (on
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
about:serviceworkers is also a way to view them on firefox
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The GDPR did not introduce the requirement to inform users of cookies. That was the ePrivacy Directive. From 2002.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
You're confusing the upcoming ePrivacy regulation with the existing ePrivacy directive - one that's been in force for 18 years. Just like people thought that the data protection was a new concept when the GDPR was created, ignorin
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Cookie banners are not a result of the GDPR. They're a consequence of the ePrivacy directive from 2002. The reason why they're more prevalent now is because GDPR 1) made people aware of data protection issues; and 2) made people m
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
No.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The GDPR is a regulation (hence the R at the end) not a directive. It became UK law as soon as it was passed by the EU, and it didn't need to be implemented in to UK law. The UK has already passed their amendments to the GDPR,[0] which
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Recital 23 of the GDPR provides some more information about when an organisation would be considered as targeting users in the EU: "In order to ensure that natural persons are not deprived of the protection to which they are entitled u
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
There are six legal bases for processing personal data, consent is only one of those.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>IP addresses still count as Personally Identifiable Information under GDPR The GDPR does not count anything as "Personally Identifiable Information", which isn't surprising as that's a US legal term. What you mean
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
You need to notify users, and give them an opt-out, if the cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of the service. Analytics cookies are not strictly necessary.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>You also should be trying to scrub IP adresses from those logs as that counts as PII. That counts as personal data . The GDPR doesn't care about "PII", as that is a US legal term and not something defined or references i
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
That's right, although Recital 23 continues on to say "factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
They've been failing to even issue fines, let alone enforce them. Both for competence reasons (see also: the collapse of the AIQ enforcement, and the climb-downs in Mariot and BA cases) and for... I don't know why in the adtech
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
These Regulations are explicitly without prejudice to data protection legislation, including the GDPR and LED. In other words, if there's a conflict between the GDPR and the DSM then the GDPR prevails.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Citizenship and residency (of data subjects) doesn't come in to the GDPR at all. If the data controller/processor is in the EU, the GDPR applies. If the data subject is physically located in the EU (even if not a citizen or reside
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The ICO can fine, but almost certainly won't. It's a failed regulator.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
It's not about localisation of data , it's about localisation of control of those data .
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
What is or isn't PII, which is a US legal term, is irrelevant. What matters is if it's Personal Data. Personal Data is defined by the GDPR as: "‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable n
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> It would be odd to see the Information Commissioner (the UK's data protection regulator) as toothless, given it has so far been among the most severe in penalising large businesses under the much greater powers it acquired under t
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The UK GDPR is not exactly the same as the EU GDPR. To give one example, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has no authority to bind the ICO. The recent fin of Twitter by the Irish DPO was subject to that mechanism (Ireland tried to

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