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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>There is no real reason to limit it to a region but they do. The US has approximately zero laws dealing with privacy. I'd bet a lot of money on that being the real reason.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The Legitimate Interests basis for processing personal data is a qualified one, though: >processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
I imagine that would very quickly turn in to contempt of court.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
In the UK there's the common law notion of a "reasonable expectation of privacy". If you're in public then you don't, generally, have a reasonable expectation of privacy, but if you're at home or at work then i
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
This should be the disclaimer put on every discussion of the GDPR on here, to be honest
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The key point is balancing the rights when they are in conflict. There's obviously more weight put on the freedom of expression side of the argument when it concerns journalistic endeavours than, say, a grandmother wanting to post pi
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>That's legal? That's not a blatant free speech issue? Why oh why does absolutely everything have to boil down to "free speech"? Do you want to only have one human right? Free speech but no other rights? People ha
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
And if they do I'm sure they'll have enough cash to dry their eyes with
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>I think this definitely answers "what is blockchain good for" I thought we had already arrived at the answer to that: "nothing (good)"
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>Assuming it was sold for what it was worth That's a BIG assumption. More likely is that it was sold on the cheap because of a conflict of interest with who they're selling it to.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
That's not why every single recipe site has these stupid blurbs... it's that Google wants unique prose on the page in order to rank it highly on SERPs
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>EDIT: the flagged comment said a single death === beatings "Banged up" can also mean put in jail (at least in British English) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banged_up#Adjective
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> Is it not a moral obligation to perform civil disobedience when challenging a law you believe unjust? He asks for only himself to be arrested! Then he should be the only one in the factory
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
That sounds like coordination to me...
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The en-US usage of the word "liberal" is really confusing to people outside of the USA. Liberalism doesn't, and has never, meant "left-wing" except for in America.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Why? A lot of people here want to be the boss of their own start-up, which means they won't want their future (perhaps hypothetical) employees organising against them.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>This is a good reason to ban politics in general, but if you allow it, you need consistent rules regarding which sorts of views are permissible, rules that aren't themselves political. It is impossible to have apolitical rules regu
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>It also means that if these get popular they will coalesce into an oligopoly. That's true of pretty much any system, though: The Iron Law of Oligarchy[0] always applies. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> Numerous issues arose during longer conversations. Blender would sometimes respond with offensive language, and at other times it would make up facts altogether. I mean, to be fair, I've had many conversations like that...
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The extant ePrivacy directive is from 2002. So... maybe you should go back in time and tell the EU back at the turn of the millennium that...
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
Victoria's Secret managed to put a "you must continue paying even if there's a pandemic" clause in a contract signed _in February_ so... it wouldn't surprise me if We Work still had to pay rent given how well (read:
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
> That is actually the scariest thing about CO2. It's going to stay in our atmosphere for 100 of years. So even just stopping emitting is just about maintaining the status quo. And the worst part about that is the status quo is sti
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
>These make no sense if there's natural gas available. It makes perfect sense: burning gas produces CO2 which is wrecking the climate.
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
Oh no! You have to respect your customer's fundamental human rights! What a burden!
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
>IMO the only way GDPR would have worked the way its advocates hoped is if the enacting statutes created a private right of action. Article 79 Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor 1. Without prejudice t
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
Mmmmm, FUD. The GDPR is very clearly written, as far as legislation goes. It's really not hard to understand, unless you're wilfully trying to misunderstand it.
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
The GDPR is a small step. It's an evolution of data protection rather than a revolution. All of the fundamentals included in the GDPR were in the Data Protection Directive from 1995! Of course, the extraterritoriality is new, the lev
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
That is not because of the GDPR. Cookies (or, more specifically, data stored on end-user's devices) falls under the ePrivacy Directive from 2002(!) The only real change that the GDPR has made to this framework is the definition of &quo
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
>Since individuals can't bring GDPR lawsuits themselves They absolutely can: Article 79 Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor 1. Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial r
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by M2Ys4U 7y ago
> A lot of this gets into whether you think punishment is the desired outcome or behavioral changes. It's both, surely. Behavioural change won't last unless there are punishments for non-compliance.

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