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Well, CCPA started doing this in California. In the event of a data breach, the company can be sued for actual damages, or statutory damages of $100-750 per affected consumer. As a point of comparison: If CCPA had been in effect during the
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First, it's possible to do worse and be factually incorrect. This was, and still is, common. Second, it's possible to objective demonstrate whether a factual statement is correct or not. But whether a statement is disingenuous o
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It could allow C to close the gap in the future, but it's not there yet. Fortran is fundamentally and pervasively noalias, and its compilers have decades of experience operating under that assumption. C/C++ doesn't use it n
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This situation is covered by GDPR. GDPR has a "household activities" exemption, which does not apply here because it's the business activity of your landlord. The data is certainly personal data because it's connected
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To sell the purchase data to data brokers so they can aggregate purchase data across merchants by card number?
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I was going to say something similar. It's inarguable that they were a tech company, when they pioneered streaming delivery for existing video content. Their tech platform was their primary differentiator to competitors for a number
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While the trope is "relevant XKCD," sometimes SMBC is the webcomic with the on-point reference. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/right
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20th-Century advice: "Dress for the job you want, not the job you have." 21st-Century advice: "Google for the problems you want, not the problems you have."
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The EU regulates tracking cookies. They're not banned, but the requirements for their use are rather strict, due to the interactions between the ePrivacy Directive (2002) and the GDPR (2016). To GP's broader point, "what abou
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Nope. Constitutional amendments proposed by voters require simple majority to pass, 50% + 1. That is, imho, the single largest flaw in California's initiative process (which I'm otherwise generally a fan of).
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It's because of a broken feedback mechanism. Officially, it has no therapeutic uses, which means medical research is not sanctioned. Without medical research you can't discover therapeutic uses. And when someone does do the rese
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Implementing a B+ tree was the final assignment in a grad-level Algorithms & Data Structures call that I took. I thought it was a reasonable assignment in that context. It felt like a good capstone to the class, building on what we had
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The GDPR explicitly states that only natural persons have data subject rights, not legal persons.
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Can you guarantee that you are handling data the way that ProtonMail does? Do you know how ProtonMail handles its data? A privacy policy is not just some mumbo-jumbo where you just need to get the words right. The words need to be in corr
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I'm reminded of a scene in The Wire . The protagonists have collected intelligence, and want to continue collecting more to be able to permanently destabilize a criminal organization. A career-minded officer instead decides to use thi
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Those replace calls are growing the strings--one character is being replaced by several. That has the potential for re-allocation in any language, depending on how much spare space is present. Unless the optimizer is smart enough to figure
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Googe Analytics consultant here (not Google employee). 1. Google Analytics' primary identity signal is a first-party cookie. this is not shared between domains. There is no technical way to link identity between domains with different
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This consent flow solves one specific problem very well, which is Return on Ad Spend. This addresses the data needs of one stakeholder, which is the marketer in charge of the ad and marketing budget. Of the dollars they're spending,
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If I understand Godel's theorem (which only 6 people do), the natural conclusion of this is an asset which is a derivative security of itself. Which could be the ultimate stablecoin, or equally a disproof of the self-consistency of the
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I don't think fines for cookie violations show up in that tracker. It seems to only include GDPR violations; cookies are regulated by the ePrivacy Directive, a separate (but intermingled) set of laws.
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It's literally cheating death, only spread out over a long period of time.
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It's a crowded marketplace, anybody who wants to succeed in there needs some growth hacking. Where in this case "growth hacking" hacking literally means hacking.
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But cookie banners must also adhere to the ePrivacy Directive, which is a directive (as the name implies).
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Please do not use that website. It presents itself as an authoritative resource, but it is not actually an authoritative resource. Nor, frankly, even a very good one. Actual first party resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-org
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I think 759 is somewhat related.
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To the contrary: It must be a pretty strong narrative if it convinces people to commit violence.
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The website has no relation with the law, and is not an authoritative source of information. It's not even a particularly good one. It's just a website run by some guys.
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The heart of this is the difference between legal authorization vs technical authorization. Legally, it is (or rather, used to be) OK to say "you have have access to data X for purpose Y." While the technical controls could not en
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Apple (Webkit) has proposed a browser feature that would allow tracking ad click-to-conversion without tracking the user or click. It involves the browser phoning home with low-entropy identifiers. https://webkit.org/blog&#x
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In the United States, the Supreme Court has ruled that using IQ tests for employment screening can violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co .

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