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by lmkg 8y ago
You're thinking about it wrong. The overall effect is not that users will take control over their data, or whatever. The effect is that users will complain that the site is broken. And then the pointy-haired boss will demand that the p
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by lmkg 8y ago
Legal in California: You earn 2 vacation days per month, to a max of 24. Hired in January, never use PTO, by December you have 24 days banked. In January you fail to earn PTO because you hit the cap. Total balance at end of January: 24 days
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by lmkg 8y ago
Under GDPR, an EU website owner is responsible for the Chinese scripts they load onto their site, as part of the Controller-Processor relationship. That doesn't help for Chinese companies without a locus of business in the EU, but it c
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by lmkg 8y ago
That's a little bit of a Catch-22. "Engagement" is not a well-defined metric, and in practice when people try to measure it, they end up justifying the use of any number they happen to be able to measure at the moment. So alm
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by lmkg 8y ago
IF the legal basis for processing is Consent, then that consent needs to be opt-in and freely given. If. If if if if IF IF IF . Consent is not the only legal basis for processing. This website in particular claims Legitimate Interest a
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by lmkg 8y ago
I don't think it's your responsibility to play whack-a-mole and guess what types of data you think they might have. It's their responsibility to tell you. The right to access your data is Article 15 of GDPR. Section 1 lays ou
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by lmkg 8y ago
Which might be fine, depending on their privacy policy. Let's take a look... Their privacy policy indicates they are claiming Legitimate Interest as the legal basis for using Google Analytics. My network tab also sees hits form ShareTh
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by lmkg 8y ago
There is a browser API called Beacon whose purpose is to address this specific edge-case. Google Analytics supports it as an option. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Beacon_API
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by lmkg 8y ago
I'll go ahead and voice some support. My position isn't as extreme, but I do think that case-sensitivity is overused and should not be the default. There are places where it makes sense and should be used, but not many compared to
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by lmkg 8y ago
Free text is the traditional definition of unstructured data (along with audio & video equivalents). But I agree with GP, that people usually mean inconsistently-structured data when they use the term, whether it's accurate or no
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Note that Google Analytics has an option to use the Beacon API, somewhere in it. Re-using that might save you some work.
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by lmkg 8y ago
> cookies This is the real culprit right here. This very page on HN that I'm reading right now, the cookie field is 415 bytes and there's really not much there. New York Times homepage has 988 bytes and I don't eve
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> from an established enterprise tech company My first guess, based on basically nothing at all, was that this was an IBM Watson project. 0.3 seconds of Googling found that IBM has already published a case study on their website
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by lmkg 8y ago
And let's not forget George Foreman, who named all five of his sons George Edward Foreman. So a middle name wouldn't have helped you there.
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There was a minor kerfuffle a few years ago because Obama was considering someone for Secretary of Treasury whose signature (which would have appeared on all American bills) was just five or six loops. It bore no resemblance to his name. He
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by lmkg 8y ago
They get IVs to stay hydrated. They're not "in need" of medical treatment, they're choosing to use something that's usually a medical treatment as a routine process instead of drinking from a water bottle. I assume
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by lmkg 8y ago
An arrangement of facts can be copyrighted, but the facts themselves cannot. Collecting together facts and bundling them does not make a copyrighted work, but organizing facts can create a copyrighted work. The litmus test for this in t
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by lmkg 8y ago
I would expect the opposite. Meltdown and Spectre both make use of peeking at implicit state that chips hang on to in order to optimize microcode; the entire goal of Itanium was to offload this optimization from the chip to the compiler. A
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by lmkg 8y ago
In my (non-expert) opinion, one of the most important parts of the linked DPA is where Google claims that they are a Processor and not a Controller under GDPR. A Controller has discretion of what processing takes place and how it is used. A
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by lmkg 8y ago
Yes, one way to "defeat" GDPR is to comply with the spirit and letter of the law by not performing routine automated surveillance.
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by lmkg 8y ago
That's not entirely true. If you have multiple implementations, you can compare fuzz results of the implementations against each other rather than against ground truth. There's a project that does this with several popular C compi
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It's a reference to the 1995 film Hackers . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)
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by lmkg 8y ago
> As for rural America, there's a reason these areas > can't attract companies or talent. Look, I don't want to live in a remote shit-hole either, but... The fact that the concerns of rural communities are su
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by lmkg 8y ago
This is the reason why Google Analytics can be configured to read marketing parameters out of the hash fragment instead of the query string. A surprising number of sites will choke when unexpected data shows up in either the query string or
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Web marketing analyst here. UTM parameters tag campaigns at the aggregate level, to be used for reporting. The fbclid is almost-certainly unique to the click. While you could make, e.g., utm content unique per-click that's not what it&
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Yes, I did ask myself that. Google has an Analytics product so that website owners can see how much money they make from AdWords, thus encouraging them to spend more money on AdWords. GA is a strategic complement to Google's advertis
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by lmkg 8y ago
You seem to be conflating "private" and "for-profit." Most private schools that are considered respectable are non-profits (at least on paper). When someone says "for-profit college," they mean diploma mills.
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by lmkg 8y ago
For-profit colleges (at least the large ones) are actively predatory in targeting desperate, uneducated people. Something I learned from the book Weapons of Math Destruction: there's an entire industry around skimming contact informati
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by lmkg 8y ago
Your logs may be split across different services, and some of those services may be difficult to access. For example, if you're using a CDN, many hits won't go to your server. Off-the-shelf analytics solutions have a ton of heuris
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by lmkg 8y ago
They said that they kept logs for only two weeks, because the logs themselves contained private information. Those logs contained no evidence of abuse.

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