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It will depend on the law. Tax law favours a designated location for residency, for example. The GDPR doesn't even operate on the level of residency (at least for data subjects). You're covered by the GDPR when you're physica
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>Oh, it' accomplished something. It entirely ruined WHOIS so that you can no longer just pull up domain contact information. That was ICANN's decision. They implemented a scorched-earth policy in response to the GDPR rather tha
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>Does it also take into account a small business phone book (which might be stored with personal contacts on a smartphone - oops!) Yup, the GDPR covers those business contacts, to the extent that the contacts are named individuals rather
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The GDPR isn't an "online" law. It applies to processing personal data whether it's online or stored on scraps of paper in a filing cabinet.
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No single EU member state can veto this. To pass the Council a Regulation like this only requires a Qualified Majority,[0] that's votes in favour from at least 14 countries representing at least 65% of the EU's population. [0] ht
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It's almost as if the word "standards" covers a whole host of things in a very, very wide array of policy areas.
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We need both .
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China has brought more renewable power online than almost everyone else combined. (although they have also brought online a shittonne of coal power, too)
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Why the GDPR is the opposite of a ‘notice and consent’ type of law
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The cookie banners being annoying is because these companies want it to be annoying so you don't pay attention and just click accept without actually learning what they do with your data.
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There are several different ways these figures are collected and reported. As for the cause of death, FullFact has this to say: When completing a death certificate, the responsible medical professional is asked to determine which conditions
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There's also a strong political reason for the US to not approve the vaccine as fast. Fauci had to walk back[0] comments about the UK "rushing" the approval, stating "The point that I was really trying to make [...] in t
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>If it reduces impact it also reduces impact of transmission because the patient has lower viral load. That's incredibly likely but it's not what the trails tested, and so we can't rely on it. When the vaccine has been rol
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BBC Design and Engineering: 2020 in review
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1) Parliament does legislate; and 2) Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
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Parliament can't propose new legislation (except in one or two very narrow areas provided for in the treaties), but it is a legislature. In nearly all cases (except again in narrow areas defined in the treaties) Parliament must p
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> Some member countries got to vote in the last and one before MEP elections for candidates that did not represent the ruling group that runs the EU. That's equally applicable at the national level too >THAT is exactly how MEP vo
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But HTTP/1.1 using multiple TCP streams means that, where there are a lot of small requests, there's a lot of bandwidth left on the table because the TCP window never grows.
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>That's fair use, and the recipe for Grana Padano is public "Fair use" is an exception in copyright law - this isn't a copyright issue.
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>But the whole point of a trademark is to reference the thing that is trademarked. But "Grana Padano" is not a trademark . It's a protected designation of origin .
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>The trademark is not being used to sell cheese. But it's not a trademark, it's a PDO. They're two different types of exclusive right.
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Press release here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...
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European Commission has submitted a proposal for new Data Governance Regulation
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Bumble's whole premise is that (for heterosexual matches at least) women must send the first message. For the men who were using the apps (and talking about it) in my social circle it doesn't seem like it improved much from this s
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> I think you're right in that that was the original sell, but it's not how they sell it today. That's a very recent change, post spin-off from Mozilla.
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This looks like it's only for personal and non-public certs in a commercial context. From their Terms and Conditions: " ZeroSSL is for your personal or internal business use only and must be in compliance with all applicable ZeroS
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It's the inequality that correlates with poor outcomes, not absolute wealth (per capita or median).
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Genuine questions: Why do people care about unicorns so much? Why is having a bunch of $1bn+ companies necessarily a Good Thing? Is having lots of smaller companies seen as a Bad Thing?
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The places where you'll find the unicorns based all voted Remain...
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>For instance: I work for a company called Azavea that, among many noble efforts, maintains Cicero. It’s a database of elected officials and legislative districts in several countries around the world that gets updated daily. You can ima
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