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by g_p 6y ago
I agree most of the tracking and adtech is straightforward textbook illegal, and the norm in the sector. The issue I have is the general lack of enforcement. Selective enforcement of standing laws is ripe for abuse, and creates a situation
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by g_p 6y ago
> It’s probably not against the law and the situation you have described is a valid method to establishing lawful basis under the GDPR. It’s really not all about “consent” - we hear that too much. Various data protection authorities have
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by g_p 6y ago
Side note - an incredible number of sites are already planting the cookies, running the scripts, and doing the tracking before you even interact with the prompt... Textbook illegal under the ePrivacy Directive implementations, but many (mo
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by g_p 6y ago
An awful lot of OS data is actually available directly from them under the open government licence in recent years. Recently they added their UPRN (unique property reference number) database and some other ones. OpenMap Local and OpenZoomst
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In the Covid-19 jobs market, biased AI is in charge of all the hiring(wired.co.uk)
2 points by g_p 6y ago|0 comments
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by g_p 6y ago
These prices really seem to be aimed at the "those who can pay" market. What I'm surprised at is the 99.99% uptime - I thought given their foray into telecoms they'd be offering some very complex cluster-driven solution
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by g_p 6y ago
It refers to https://osm.etsi.org/ In essence, it's an attempt at an open source management and orchestration layer for virtualized telecoms networks (i.e. 5G). In the telecoms world, since everything moves in 10 year
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by g_p 6y ago
If you're on Android, FairEmail is worth a look, as a mail client that thinks about privacy. There's blocking of images by default, as well as an option to safely render basic HTML without having to parse full HTML email (if you d
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by g_p 6y ago
This is indeed precisely what the US CLOUD Act does, which is the reason why this situation has arisen in the first place, since it does violate GDPR for a company to transfer data to a US entity like this.
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by g_p 6y ago
Actually right now, since the Schrems II ruling, it doesn't matter where the servers are. The ruling identified that legislation in the US (Cloud Act) is incompatible with the principles that would allow data to be transferred absent t
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by g_p 6y ago
To add my own similar anecdote, they mailed me a check (overseas, I might add). I didn't cash it, as it seemed like LJ needed the money. I am likewise glad to see another try, but hopefully it won't try to emulate a generic tech&#
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by g_p 6y ago
Have you checked that you've turned off any "parental controls". I believe by default, new connections come with a "family friendly" filter. And that includes VPN services, since (presumably by their logic) VPNs are
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Facebook tells Irish court that probe threatens its EU operations(reuters.com)
24 points by g_p 6y ago|2 comments
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by g_p 6y ago
Factors considered when evaluating legality of cookie prompts include size, but also down to the prominence of the options to accept and reject. Even the size and colour of the buttons has been ruled to be relevant in guidance from regulato
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by g_p 6y ago
While I agree with this, I fear it requires legislative action. Third party doctrine effectively says you have no reasonable expectation of privacy (in the US) if data is transferred to a third party voluntarily. That means most cloud or ot
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by g_p 6y ago
> If I were running this, I would take a radical approach, where the strategy would be a venture model that micro-funded projects to create useful products that solved for providing future services and applications, and not legacy ones.
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by g_p 6y ago
The UK is currently taking steps towards this - the plans aren't perfect, but will require "security updates until" dates, no default or symmetrically derived passwords, and a vulnerability disclosure programme to be availabl
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by g_p 6y ago
I believe this is speculated to have happened with an Airbus doing a low pass or touch-and-go at an airshow. The aircraft seemed to believe it was landing, the captain was requesting TOGA thrust. Airbus auto throttle is a nice idea when it
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by g_p 6y ago
This is good feedback that hopefully the devs will take onboard. I know they were hiring mission designers recently. Hopefully they'll improve the training, because you're missing out on a lot of you didn't really get past th
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by g_p 6y ago
I think this could well happen, especially given the current unfortunate levels of lay-offs in commercial aviation. There's a load of qualified ATPs and others out there starting YouTube channels, and I think online flight schools woul
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by g_p 6y ago
The current training "missions" seem to be straightforward "ports" of the old training missions from FSX/FS 2004, but without the ground school written material to match. I'm hopeful with the advent of YouTube
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by g_p 6y ago
Flight Sim 2004 probably was the peak of tutorials - they effectively had a full "ground school" of how to fly, with content by an actual flight instructor (Rod Machodo). That content had written lessons (something also makes me t
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by g_p 6y ago
It would be interesting to analyze this from the perspective of a country where students don't pay privately for their own education (or at least it isn't heavily normalized), where having such an email isn't necessarily a p
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by g_p 6y ago
Putting aside EMP attacks (a real risk, but harder to mitigate against), the big issue right now on a day to day level is that energy suppliers are under pressure from regulators to reduce prices to consumers (in most countries which run re
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by g_p 6y ago
> I just hope NSF doesn't interpret the change as a mandate to "de-risk" research. I fear this has happened already elsewhere in science, and it will inevitably happen for the NSF at some point. Too many people who don&#x2
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by g_p 6y ago
I believe they're referring to the forced permission prompt for allowing tracking cross websites and apps - https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ios-14-safari-privacy-ad-t... Specifically, from the above, > "
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by g_p 6y ago
You certainly don't need a Masters to do a UK PhD either.
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by g_p 6y ago
I felt your way actually about it at the time. I like the 3 year timescale and greater level of self led work. I pretty much avoided doing any "taught" courses for the reasons you outlined, but I have found some of my students did
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by g_p 6y ago
Admittedly approaching this with a non-US perspective, but it seems strange to me that PhD students approach their advisors to see what the project/approach is. Is it normal (in the US?) for a PhD to be as "guided" or prescri
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by g_p 6y ago
To add a data point, my advisor told me to do the same. In fact, I actually spoke to one of his then-RAs who was leaving to go to the other side of the world (by sheer coincidence). That discussion confirmed I was making the right decision,

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