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by lmkg 4y ago
GDPR requires a purpose for processing . The majority of other requirements GDPR imposes attach to the purpose , rather than the processing activity. GDPR gives a lot of leeway in determining a purpose. But if you don't have a purp
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by lmkg 4y ago
Banks have tons of things going on, I wouldn't take one (or even a hundred) job postings as indicative of a firm-wide shift in strategy. They could be using Rust for their phone app or their real-time ML fraud-detection system, while
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by lmkg 4y ago
The tool you're referring to is called Crater: https://github.com/rust-lang/crater .
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by lmkg 4y ago
The compiler shouldn't have to deduce anything, an Iterator shouldn't have a bounds check to begin with. It ought to be using unsafe operations under the hood, because it can guarantee they will only be called with valid arguments
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by lmkg 4y ago
All of these movements by both regulators and personal lawsuits over the use of US-based cloud providers stem from the Schrems II case. This is what established as a practical fact the fundamental conflict between GDPR and the CLOUD Act.
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by lmkg 4y ago
This ruling is about the US CLOUD Act moreso than GDPR. The CLOUD Act says US law enforcement can get anyone's data from a US company, with no safeguards. GDPR is just calling a spade a spade.
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by lmkg 4y ago
This blog post is incomplete with respect to Breyer . An IP address is always personal data to an ISP. It's also personal data to anyone who can ask/request/compel the ISP to identify someone based on the IP address. And o
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by lmkg 4y ago
Someone has previously gotten fined for using Akamai, because it involves disclosing the user's IP address to a US company. (In fact, it was to a EU subsidiary of a US company, but due to the CLOUD Act this doesn't matter.) In th
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by lmkg 4y ago
No one knows yet, because the successor to Privacy Shield is still currently more of an "agreement to do something" rather than an actual law. There is at least some movement in the right direction, which is to say the US is pay
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by lmkg 4y ago
The CLOUD Act gives US law enforcement access to the data, even if it's only stored in Europe. That's the problem, and the EU court is doing no more than recognizing that for the problem that it is.
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by lmkg 4y ago
It's not a hack , but it's still a breach . A data breach just means that data is accessed by unauthorized parties. Accidental data breaches are not only possible, but common. If a company accidentally emails a group of customer
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by lmkg 4y ago
> it is always possible to compute BB(k) for a specific and arbitrary k This is not true. There is a number N where BB(n) is incomputable for all n > N. This fact tie back to being able to solve the Halting Problem, in various clever
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by lmkg 4y ago
A process gate is a "bolt-on" solution. Rather than modifying the existing process to improve outcomes, you treat each team's activities as a black box and try to improve outcomes by sticking something in-between their activi
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by lmkg 4y ago
> It's especially interesting with good case studies for how to model an advanced tag system in a graph database I wouldn't accuse it of being a good tag system, nor a true graph database, but one thing to look at is Semantic
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by lmkg 4y ago
> real number, complex numbers, calculus, etc Some humans believe that the prominence of real numbers is a historical accident. It seems quite plausible to me that a human society, much less an alien one, would go down a mathematical evo
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by lmkg 4y ago
But neither of those facts are true in non-Euclidean geometries like Spherical Geometry or Hyperbolic Geometry. The jury is still out on whether the universe is flat or has some sort of curvature. Meanwhile spherical geometry is fundamental
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by lmkg 4y ago
Your understanding is technically correct but missing some nuance which is the heart of the matter. It's true the use of an IQ test can be justified . The important thing is that the use of an IQ test must be justified . Due to the S
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by lmkg 4y ago
"Don't be indispensable. If you're indispensable, you can't be promoted." -Flavor text from Netrunner CCG (1996)
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by lmkg 4y ago
> not data. Personal Data. That's fair. Although a lot of data can become personal data if you're not careful. > it's about sending the data to the US (or most non-EU countries) Disagree, the United States is in a wo
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by lmkg 4y ago
Court rulings in the EU have found that US law is not compatible with GDPR: US lets law enforcement have unfettered access to the data of EU residents, with no restrictions or redress mechanisms that satisfy the EU court. This means that se
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by lmkg 4y ago
You need consent to read or write data from the user's computer except that which is strictly necessary for providing the service provided. This torpedoes analytics which identify users by setting their own pseudonymous identifier.
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by lmkg 4y ago
Under GDPR, if you use a third-party tools, and those tools process user data (including just being loaded onto the page from a third-party server, because that requires processing IP Address), then your arrangement with that third party mu
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by lmkg 4y ago
That's even worse because it's malicious, wolves in sheeple clothing.
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by lmkg 4y ago
> Of course, this was long before they sold ephemeral digital things But by that point they had established themselves. They earned trust before selling things that required that trust.
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by lmkg 4y ago
Considering the verticals they're in, they probably need to deal with a whole buncha legal requirements. Different legal requirements from different jurisdictions, many of which are devolved to independent standards bodies. I'm su
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by lmkg 4y ago
Spam email, yes, due to the CAN-SPAM Act explicitly authorizing it. I believe that at least one individual has literally made a living out of pursuing such lawsuits. Texts, nope.
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by lmkg 4y ago
Section 101 part b "Permissible Purposes," defines when data is allowed to be collected. The sixth such purpose: "To comply with a legal obligation imposed by Federal, Tribal, Local, or State law..." A close reading of t
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by lmkg 4y ago
For those following along at home: So far five states have passed local Data Privacy laws (CA, VA, UT, CT, MA). They are all different. This situation makes it much more likely that federal data privacy legislation will happen: while compan
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by lmkg 4y ago
Whether it's personal data is not the issue. The issue is whether US law enforcement has unrestricted access to the data. They are considered to have unrestricted access to any data on Google's servers (even their EU servers). B
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by lmkg 4y ago
There was a... "tradition" is a strong word, perhaps "trend" is better. Authors making copies of the Bible or related works in Cyrillic, that the letter O (equivalent to Roman O) at the beginning of the word for "ey

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