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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
It depends - what's the purpose of the mailing list? If it's for purely personal or household purposes (e.g. a group of friends/family) then it's out of scope by virtue of Article 2(2)(c). Otherwise it'd likely be i
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>I believe the top of the funnel for the UPRN process is council tax registration which not all buildings need UPRNs are issued for structures that aren't houses or even buildings. 10010457355 is Stonehenge, for example, and 1002299
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
No, but Benjamin does, so if Benjamin's use of Anna's personal data in the inbox is in scope of the GDPR then Anna has rights that she can enforce against Benjamin.
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
It doesn't matter if Anna "owns" the data; The GDPR doesn't care who owns data. What matters is who controls it and what processing they do on it (with storage considered processing).
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>"personal data", which is data that can be used to identify you. E.g. name, address, location, tracking ids. This is wrong - very wrong. Article 4 defines personal data: "‘personal data’ means any information relating to
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
The email provider in this scenario is almost certainly not the data controller - Benjamin is - so no. And if Benjamin is using their email inbox in a purely personal manner then it'd be out of scope of the GDPR entirely.
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
Firstly, the GDPR doesn't care about PII - that's an American legal term and the GDPR is an EU law. It deals with processing personal data , and the two are not the same (although there is overlap, with PD having a more expansive
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
The recent 4.2.0 release has introduced an opt-in search feature, so that's changing. About half of Mastodon instances are on 4.2 now (according to FediDB), and it looks like future releases will prompt existing users to check whether
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
News Labs isn't running the Mastodon trial, it's a different team in BBC R&D with a different remit
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
No.
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(2013)
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>once you work in a given place, there's usually not much choice which union you can join (or which will represent you in any case), and your only option is to change employer, location or career. Unions are generally democratic, to
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>I don't get to pick unions. >Unions are not voluntary Not all of my colleagues are in a union, and some of those that are are in a different union to me (albeit a minority of them). It works.
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>Don't unions work best in fields where quality is very uniform and expertise counts for very little? Absolutely not. I'm a software engineer in a research & development department (with a headcount of ~200 in an organisati
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>...But at that point you might as well just roll your own 128-bit version of a Snowflake ID. Or UUIDv7, which is designed to solve the same problem
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
It's not required by capitalism, but capitalism does incentivise this type of behaviour.
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>Those employees said Wirecutter’s top editors argued that the site’s business would not scale directly, because a minority of articles, many of them for big-ticket items such as appliances, generated the bulk of the company’s revenues.
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
In the UK people can self-certify as being unfit to work for up to 7 days, after which they need a "fit note" (which is more commonly called a "sick note") from a healthcare professional. Additionally workers are guarant
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>But donating to an organization that doesn't directly benefit Wikipedia in any way, that's where I'm much more doubtful. I'd much prefer they just advertised them in some way instead, like during their donation drive
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
> Of all the things people can be angry about Wikipedia's small contributions to other non-profits is the one they choose do protest. Amazing. It doesn't strike me as coincidental that people are complaining about money going t
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
My partner bought an eye mask with built-in Bluetooth headphones so they could sleep listening to audio books or podcasts or whatever. But it had a bright blue LED, which was not only disturbing to me but could also be seen through the d
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>Rejecting responsibility for one's actions appears to be indicative of today's young adults. Their behavior in schools and public suggests they feel entitled, and even a victim of responsibility. Members of every generation ha
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
What makes you think they'd listen to the W3C if they said "don't do it"? They'd likely just spin up an "independent" body to manage the specification and publish it outside of the auspices of the W3C. Tha
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
"in current form" means our work on opposing Google here is not over. We need to salt the ground this was grown in and make sure it never comes back.
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>Why is this so common with tech companies? Venture capital.
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." ― Upton Sinclair
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
Yes: "Software shall not be used to impede the replacement of a portable battery or LMT battery, or of their key components, with another compatible battery or key components."
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
That's defined in Article 3: "portable battery’ means a battery that is sealed, weighs 5 kg or less, is not designed specifically for industrial use and is neither an electric vehicle battery, an LMT battery, nor an SLI battery;&q
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
And this is why the regulation does oblige manufacturers to supply replacement batteries for at least 5 years after the product that uses them was last sold. That doesn't completely solve the problem, but it's not a glaring loop
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by M2Ys4U 3y ago
Well we're in luck, because the regulation does touch on this. Batteries must be "available as spare parts of the equipment that they power for a minimum of five years after placing the last unit of the equipment model on the mark

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