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by lmkg 6y ago
This exists and is used today in production. The feature is called "Google Signals." It can be used as a replacement for the identity signal (read: cookies) for Google Analytics and Google Ads.
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by lmkg 6y ago
Fingerprinting doesn't reveal an individual's name or passport number, so it's not PII. That's why PII is not a very useful concept in general, and why claims about privacy safeguards that over-focus on PII should be met
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by lmkg 6y ago
Google's identity signal that they have given themselves access to works across cross-domain and cross-device. First-party cookies do neither. I would strongly prefer that everyone restrict themselves to the capabilities of first-party
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by lmkg 6y ago
Moving tags & scripts into a server-side application sounds similar to the new Server-Side Container type available from Google Tag Manager. Is there an overlap in the use case, and if so, what are the differentiators for Zaraz? I do an
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by lmkg 6y ago
It's somewhat surprising because the recognition of "risk" as a concept is much more recent, and its relation to finance and rates much more recent than that. If the relation between risk and rates of return has held for long
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by lmkg 6y ago
Before it was an investment vehicle or speculation tool, before it was even a technology, cryptocurrency was a political statement. Bitcoin, fundamentally, is predicated on a belief about the relationship between government, money, and free
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by lmkg 6y ago
I believe this as well. That's the reason why I have a triple-digit number tabs open, and haven't bookmarked a site in twenty years. I much prefer having only a single interface to manage, which for me is tabs. I suspect many othe
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by lmkg 6y ago
Vivaldi had a blog post recently that touched on this tangentially. https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-vs-google-chrome/ > At the time, we found that the Chromium engine was secure and the most widely use
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by lmkg 6y ago
If they are "established" somewhere in the EU, then all GDPR complaints get forwarded to the DPA for the country where they are established. This is called the "one-stop shop mechanism." If the Norwegian DPA is the one h
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by lmkg 6y ago
A flytrap closes in response to tactile stimuli. Meaning that it has a sense of touch. The word "feel" is nebulous, but at least one meaning would include that.
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by lmkg 6y ago
In GA4, with Google Signals enabled, the "identity signal" is a psuedonymous identifier unique to your Google Account. I don't know exactly if it's a hash or a join key or what, but the point is it's stable across d
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by lmkg 6y ago
Google wants your Google Account to be the only Identity Signal available on the web. This feature is available right now in Analytics and Ads. It's called "Google Signals." The documentation is publicly available, although i
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by lmkg 6y ago
Perhaps a "cracked" version can either use unofficial servers, or permits/includes cheating mods?
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by lmkg 6y ago
Parler has a first-amendment right to free speech. Amazon, etc., also have a first-amendment right to free speech. IMHO this includes deciding not to conduct business with another private party. I do not consider this on their part to be
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by lmkg 6y ago
At least one person has already been prosecuted for "hacking" for incrementing integers in a URL.
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DMCA is only for intellectual property, not private information in general. There are other laws this would likely fall under. Laws against hacking are generally "access in excess of authorization," where "authorization"
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by lmkg 6y ago
My point is that cookies have additional regulations beyond just being personal data covered by GDPR. You are correct that cookie-equivalents are similarly regulated (including most fingerprinting techniques!). But they're not just a s
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by lmkg 6y ago
This isn't exactly a mystery. Google is doing this. Several of the pieces are already in place. If you log into a Google account in Chrome, you log into Chrome itself with that Google account. Then Google tools can use your account
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by lmkg 6y ago
There are cookie policies in the EU. GDPR covers personal data, of which cookies can be one particular way. The ePrivacy Directive is a separate law, modified but not repealed by GDPR, which addresses cookie data. The difference and interac
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How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome(vivaldi.com)
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by lmkg 6y ago
> when it comes to cookies, consent is almost always required We are in agreement. It seems I wasn't clear enough in my original post, but this is my overall point. GDPR doesn't require consent, but consent is required because
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by lmkg 6y ago
GDPR does not require consent. If you use consent, then it must be freely-given, but can often use a different legal basis when processing personal data. The ePrivacy Directive requires consent for reading or writing from a terminal device.
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by lmkg 6y ago
In very loose terms: Rust's async/await syntax defines an interface to async programming, not an implementation . Rust leaves the implementation, and thereby choice of concurrency strategy, to libraries. Tokio is such a library
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by lmkg 6y ago
Alright, so this gets in the weeds. GDPR does not supercede the ePD. The ePD is, according to its own text, a law that extends the general privacy regulations to certain aspects of internet technology. So in many cases it defers out to the
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by lmkg 6y ago
If a cookie is not necessary (or you are using a necessary cookie for secondary purposes), then you need GDPR-valid consent. This means: 1. Consent must be separate from other terms being agreed to. So consent in the EULA would not be valid
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by lmkg 6y ago
Two objections. 1. A law that aims to prevent stealing should be deterring thieves, not just regulating padlocks. 2. Technical measures are insufficient because cookies are regulated by purpose . A third-party cookie for fraud detection is
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by lmkg 6y ago
The cookie banner is NOT regulated by the GDPR. It's related to the ePrivacy Directive, which is deeply intertwined with GDPR but a separate piece of legislation. It's not clear whether the GDPR's territorial applicability
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by lmkg 6y ago
Entirely setting aside the current debate on whether police have enough accountability for the unique powers they wield... Public sector employees are subject to extra scrutiny that private-sector employees are not. That's simply part
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by lmkg 6y ago
Google Analytics consultant here. A plain-vanilla GA installation does not connect GA data to any of Google's data. Google is a Processor under GDPR & Service Provider under CCPA, meaning that the data "belongs" to the si
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by lmkg 6y ago
Agreed, Differential Privacy is the name for this problem. Quick summary of important results: You will always leak a small amount of information. But it is possible to bound this leak to whatever level you consider "acceptable."

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