MatthewWilkes

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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
That's not gaming it, it's a feature. GDPR isn't designed to stop companies contacting you, it's designed to ensure companies have to think through what they're doing and have process for handling objections and pro
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
Sure. I admit, I simplified things because hackernews can be a rather hostile environment on this topic. It's not that you can't use consent, it's (as you say) that legitimate interest is insufficient as most types of electro
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
The PECR regulations specifically state that consent is the only basis for electronic marketing. The ICO guidelines also state that legitimate interest is fine for marketing, but not electronic marketing. Anyone who dropped explicit consent
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
I can't tell if this is in the article as it's paywalled, but a company in York recently put up an advert for £20k/year for Cobol programmers with no programming experience required, doubling at the end of the training period
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
He has committed crimes in the UK that he is wanted for. The charges in Sweden were dropped for practical reasons, something the UK should also have done. It's a sunk cost fallacy, they've spent a huge amount of time and money try
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
While it is interesting to read more of the root cause, the tone of this article is surprisingly pro-Apple to my ears. No, they didn't delete his movies, but they did introduce a technical limitation to prevent him from accessing conte
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
Sounds great, but unless they offer a model with no internet connectivity it'll be a no from me. I've got an older Roomba that only has 802.15.4 and IR connectivity, with no cameras. That feels a lot safer.
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
Is there a better link for this? The provided one seems to be some academic bureaucracy. I'd be interested in knowing how this differs from pint.
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
I had no idea that electric scooters were a fad elsewhere, but the tone of this article makes me glad they aren't in the UK. The assumption seems to be that they'd be on the footpath, which just sounds crazy to me. As for the road
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
9 clicks to opt out of tracking cookies. Why do these companies bother adding these banners if they're not going to comply with the law?
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
I know GDPR isn't very popular with some users of this site, but the rights related to automated decision making are a wonderful thing.
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
It's amazing how true that is. The last time I received an SMS from a person rather than a business was over a month ago.
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
This is a really interesting perspective for people who haven't grown up with Git. I'd not grokked a distinction between three generations of VCS before and it's strange to me to hear git's bad UI described as something
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
I had one background checking service (run by a credit reference agency) forge a document authorising them to get details of my finances and send it to my referees once. The whole process is infested with the least ethical people imaginable
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
Amusingly, the website this article is hosted in pops up a modal asking you to sign up to a mailing list with a low contrast dismiss button and saying "you can always unsubscribe". People in glass houses.
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
Given they say this only affects cards without chip-and-pin, this is probably of interest to people from the US who have flown in to British airports, as Dixons operate electronics stores selling things like portable USB chargers, headphone
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
They've most likely been mislead by very poor advice on marketing communications. Under GDPR a company can rely on "legitimate interest" as their lawful basis for processing for marketing purposes. However, this ignores the o
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
See also, this italian version that did the rounds a couple of weeks ago: https://twitter.com/koenfucius/status/997783004155187200
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
This has been covered here many times, but consent is not the only basis for lawful processing under GDPR.
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
Fair point. Pretty much all of my data protection work recently has been with sites that can identify the person, sorry, I let thay context affect what I said. That said, doesn't this assume the user has a dynamic IP address? You can&#
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
Then why block the EU to begin with? The argument is clear, blocking users is not a panacea.
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
IP address is PII, though. The fact that you're processing it into broader categories in order to make an automated decision is neither here nor there. Logging HTTP requests is allowed not because it contains no sensitive data, but bec
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
My (EU) clients fall into two camps. Those who haven't had to do a single thing to be GDPR compliant because they were already following the various data protection and privacy laws, and the ones panicking. The latter group say things
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
How will it work with copyright law, or defamation law?
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by MatthewWilkes 8y ago
If post description is accurate and the old version has been remote-wiped from devices, does that mean the data migration issue is no longer relevant?
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
I know some terminals here in the UK lie about their capabilities, for example they'll tell the card they're offline only even if they do support online transactions.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
I think it also depends on what buttons they press. I believe if they select credit card it forces it to be a signature.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
The UK was relatively late to the party, some large retailers here campaigned against it as they were afraid that going online for authorisations would increase the time it took to serve people. I believe that the offline mode was enough to
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
The term does derive from Gullivers Travels, where the big endians and the little endians were both to be found on an island in the Indian ocean. Of course, the real reason for the mistake is that phone spelling correction will convert endi
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
It's interesting reading the comments in this thread as they seem to be very much from a US standpoint. Here in the UK it's rare for Amazon packages to be sent by anything other than Amazon Logistics. There are issues with misdeli

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