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by hnbad 10mo ago
> They want the data just as bad as everybody else. Sure. Let's look at the main site: https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en Big cookie banner. Wait. What's that. It's not a modal? And a big "Acce
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by hnbad 10mo ago
They say they remove information from the collected data. They aren't very explicit about what information they remove or not. They also seem to be feeding the data they collect right into the affiliated data broker company. There are
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by hnbad 10mo ago
It would have been no less suprising to me had it been a US company but it certainly fits the cultural stereotype of callousness that particular country has been openly displaying in recent years.
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by hnbad 10mo ago
This might be a case of app permissions just being poorly delineated. E.g. I've seen Android apps require "location data" access just because they want to connect over bluetooth or manage WiFi or something (not entirely sure
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by hnbad 10mo ago
A big problem is also that you can pretty much only grant permission for one specific site or all sites and this very much depends on which of those two options the extension uses. For example there's no need for the "inject custo
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by hnbad 10mo ago
Israel is the new Russia, I guess.
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by hnbad 10mo ago
Note that this is a pretty blatant GDPR violation and you should report this to the local data protection agency if you are a EU resident and care about this (especially if you've used this extension). Their privacy policy claims the d
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by hnbad 11mo ago
It's funny that the President of the United States literally stated that the European Union's raison d'etre is inherently hostile to the US - pretty much as close as you can get to calling us an enemy - and yet EU politicians
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by hnbad 11mo ago
> What matters is can your decisions be defended in front of a judge. I am not qualified to figure that out, and unless you're a lawyer, neither are you. It's not a lawyer's job to answer that question because the answer i
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by hnbad 11mo ago
DNT headers are not by themselves legally binding. However they can rightfully be considered an indication of a user's preferences (kind like how the OS language settings can be an indication of what language a user wants a website t
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by hnbad 11mo ago
I'm sorry but the word is "consent" not "intent" and that's literally how consent works. If I (a complete stranger to you) walk up to you and kiss you on the lips, it doesn't make a difference whether you&
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by hnbad 11mo ago
This sounds interesting and all but I'd like a more technically informed source than The Verge to judge whether the headline is accurate: > One change that’s likely to please almost everyone is a reduction in Europe’s ubiquitous coo
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by hnbad 11mo ago
That wouldn't be the foundation of Facebook, that would be Facebook introducing the algorithmic timeline. Remember that Facebook explicitly considered it a success because it increased "engagement" while the vast majority of
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by hnbad 1y ago
Sure but that's somewhat tautological and not very helpful if you seek an empirical or predictive understanding of it. The question really is what complexity of the system (meaning: all of it) is irreducible and what can at least be ap
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by hnbad 1y ago
You don't leave iris prints everywhere you go. Even most fingerprints you leave are unusable for identification. Contrary to what CSI may have taught most Americans, even usable DNA samples aren't a given. Biometrics aren't &
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by hnbad 1y ago
Because the US has laughably weak privacy laws and most Americans snicker at the EU GDPR because of "cookie banners" (which btw isn't a thing - most consent dialogs are non-compliant as they shouldn't serve to just infor
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by hnbad 1y ago
Surely there's a difference between collecting a thumbprint for a driver's license or even collecting full fingerprints for a specific job type, and collecting your DNA and an iris scan just for being a citizen? I'm German. M
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by hnbad 1y ago
GP probably meant "how" as in "By what mechanisms" not "why" as in "For what purposes". So "why" as in "what makes it do what it does".
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by hnbad 1y ago
Germany is a developing country when it comes to broadband let alone wireless internet. The short version is that the chancellor we had in the 1990s didn't like how the public broadcasting channels were talking about his failures and w
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by hnbad 1y ago
The boneheaded decision to "privatize" rail by creating a state-owned corporation competing with itself, a network of regional corporations with extremely inconsistent funding and separate corporations for various services like li
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by hnbad 1y ago
They aren't. The US is just in a unique position where its projected force in most of the world is sufficient to make other governments mostly do what they want without them having to even say it. Of course the US is also apparently tr
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by hnbad 1y ago
Sure but "not a regular criminal" is a much broader group than you make it out to be. Remember the CIA was also the primary actor involved in the US's overseas bombing attacks, especially outside active war zones. Sure, a lot
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by hnbad 1y ago
People still use it. VR "adult content" is still a thing. I admit that that's the only use case in which it seems to have stuck around that I'm aware of. But if that industry is good enough for OpenAI, maybe there's
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by hnbad 1y ago
I don't think you know what those words mean. A dog whistle is intended to be only recognized by those who are intended to "hear" it - like how an actual dog whistle appears almost entirely silent to humans but can be heard b
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by hnbad 1y ago
TLDW? We used to hate Clippy because he felt intrusive. Now AI is much more deliberately intrusive and every service mines your data. Clippy doesn't seem so bad in comparison. Hence, nostalgia mixed with a form of protest against the A
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by hnbad 1y ago
I'm sure there are at least several people in the US who would gladly pay $12 million to directly cause someone's death without further repercussions. There are several people who could easily afford that several times a year with
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by hnbad 1y ago
Doesn't much of the US economy already work like this? "Don't make it illegal to do things that will cause harm but make people liable for when they do cause harm"? Of course due to the power imbalance of individuals aga
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by hnbad 1y ago
If you want to be this pedantic, killing humans is technically legal in every country that has soldiers and law enforcement officers.
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by hnbad 1y ago
Could be? You should look into the history of the Black Panthers. The US government doesn't need to make membership illegal to suppress and destroy political movements.
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by hnbad 1y ago
Membership in an anti-constitutional organization is a crime under German law btw and I'm pretty sure there are other countries with similar laws. The US does criminalize membership but only as an add-on to other charges (co-conspiracy

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