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by arlcode 5y ago
At least in Germany the law was ammended to allow this specific scenario.
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by arlcode 5y ago
Yes but it's (according to the article) the only system that takes on any legal responsibility and guarantees a fairly long takeover window within which Mercedes will still be at fault for an accident. All other companies don't g
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by arlcode 5y ago
Any APK hoster which distributes bytecode (or any other software) without prior permission acts illegaly. Redistribution of copyright protected material requires authorization of the right holder. Code (or programs compiled from code), usua
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by arlcode 5y ago
Google probably said something like: "For now we ask you to not use our Logo and trademarks anymore and if you comply by shutting the project down, we are happy to leave it at that. If however you decide to continue we will come after
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by arlcode 5y ago
Then I would not be able to use your code no matter my intentions no matter how well meaning you are. In my country you cannot dedicate something to the public domain (it happens automatically 70 years after your death). The Unlicense would
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by arlcode 5y ago
Regulation will happen. Some Crypto people may believe that they are immune to the governments of the world but they really aren't. Whoever can kick down your door has the ability to make some rules and especially after a significant e
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by arlcode 5y ago
Treaties are not even needed. They pull the same stunts in all countries and courts in a neighbouring legislation (e.g. Germany / France) could very likely impose similar fines. The Dutch are just the first. There are several EU wide d
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by arlcode 5y ago
Sales people earn a lot trough comissions and are usually regular employees. Amazon could easily pay some extra money for each delivered package. Paying someone minimum wage is the employer saying "I would pay you less but the stupid g
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by arlcode 5y ago
In Europe, big tech pays very little taxes, provides very few jobs and exfiltrates mountains of personal data to foreign intelligence services. It's politically very easy to bring out the big guns here for European politicians. At leas
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by arlcode 5y ago
Of course the users do (and pay for it) However from a political standpoint that's as good as nothing.
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by arlcode 5y ago
Critically, they want access for for free. The US does not have to give anything in return to get all the private data from EU they want. The EU in return gets...nothing. If you are a politician this is not a great position, you get no mone
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by arlcode 5y ago
Very true. I think we will see a two pronged approach to the Problem. On the EU level, the commission and the states will engage Google directly while on a national level individual companies will be "encouraged" to find alternati
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by arlcode 5y ago
Reasons: 1. Legal: It's the site owners integrating GA and therefore taking on the liabilities just like they do with every other supplier. When a part in your car fails immediately after you bought it, it's the manufacturers job
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by arlcode 5y ago
Not really. For Example: When GDPR went into effect many companies here in Germany were not really surprised and did not have to change much (if anything). Why? Because it has always been like this. Some of the specifics changed but in the
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by arlcode 5y ago
Well it's their own doing. Facebook doesn't give European politicians and regulators any arguments that speak for them: - (Basically) No jobs in Europe - (Basically) No taxes in Europe - Easily replaceable (aka no major economic c
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by arlcode 5y ago
No hotlinking fonts is okay if you have a valid data processing agreement with the service.
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by arlcode 5y ago
Perfect than you can just continue to use Google Fonts as is. I suppose Google does not pay artists and foundries out of the goodness of their hearts. They pay them to earn money through user data. If this is illegal a different service wil
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by arlcode 5y ago
But there is nothing that prevents anybody to build a similar product but charging a fee for it. The payment being "user data" is the problem. Not the product in and of itself. If you are in the EU such a platform would probably n
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by arlcode 5y ago
It mostly doesn't?
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by arlcode 5y ago
Google cannot escape the US government agencies (CLOUD act) etc. It doesn't matter what the promise. They could sell their software stack to an independent European partner over whom they don't have any control and who doesn'
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by arlcode 5y ago
If you are logged in to Google and visited YouTube earlier that day they already know that you are behind IP X with device Z and use that information later on by connecting it with the font API key of mydomain.de Remember that your user age
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by arlcode 5y ago
Consider the following scenario: You are logged in to to google and so are your family members. You visit YouTube.com from IP X with device (user agent) Y. Your family member visits YouTube.com from IP X with device Z. Google Fonts gets a r
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by arlcode 5y ago
I agree with everything you said except the last paragraph. 100€ was fine in my opinion, because a) it isn't that big of an infraction b) it probably was their first offense and c) this legal ruling is indeed setting some kind of prece
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by arlcode 5y ago
Awesome. Thanks
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by arlcode 5y ago
Could be but I would not expect it. If the user visits foo.de they obviously expect that some data is transmitted to foo.de They also might know that companies use service providers and therefore necessary data might be shared with 3rd part
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by arlcode 5y ago
Do you have a link. I read that recently this specific scam was picking up steam in the US and was concerned about the implications here in Germany.
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by arlcode 5y ago
If there are different means to host the asset and the hot linking would transfer data out of the EU (in particular to the US and to a giant marketing company) that might be problematic.
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by arlcode 5y ago
Also Google can definitely make use of That information because they know so much about the user that a single IP connect is enough to establish that a specific user visited that website.
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by arlcode 5y ago
The court explicitly noted that the IP was exfilled to the United States where adequate data protection measures do not exist and that Google in particular is well known for invasive data collection The court also noted that there was an al
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by arlcode 5y ago
Maybe Amazon Germany is different or I've been extremely lucky so far because I've never received a fake (as far as I can tell). I wonder whether fakes are more prevalent in some product categories than in others.

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