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by lmkg 5y ago
It's fair to the extent that you're required to rely on 3rd-party products to get something done. If WordPress-the-Technology uses WordPress-the-Ecosystem as a main selling point, then its their choice to bundle their reputations
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This is correct. The Article 22 rights are the most narrowly-restricted of any data subject rights granted by GDPR. It only applies to things that are a Very Big Deal, like prison sentences, voting rights, or eligibility for government serv
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Access is also a larger issue in under-served populations. I'm fortunate enough, as probably are many on this site, to be able to just swing by CVS during some downtime while WFH. A person who is paid hourly for an in-person job and re
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That is literally the opposite of true. GDPR applies to individuals located in the European Union, and citizenship is not a factor. EU citizens have no GDPR rights while abroad, and conversely non-Europeans have GDPR protection while in the
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Facebook is now Meta, so the acronyms have to change.
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This is one of those things where different countries take different approaches (or at least have different pointes of emphasis). But the classic example is a security camera you install on your own house (or these days, a doorbell camera).
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According to their documentation, DAP is built on-top of Google Analytics, and also IP Anonymization is enabled by default. As a Google Analytics power-user, I happen to know two relevants facts: 1) Geography is inferred from IP Address 2)
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by lmkg 5y ago
Dunno where you're getting that idea. Per Article 2 "Material Scope" ( https://gdpr-info.eu/art-2-gdpr/ ): > 2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: > (c) by a natural p
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Go to https://www.enforcementtracker.com , which collects and publishes GDPR fine information. Type in "Private Individual" as a filter in the "Controller/Processor" column. I see twenty-ish results, most
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Exactly. As far as I can tell, the only problem that most European courts cite is the CLOUD Act. If that law were updated, I suspect many of these rulings would get reversed.
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> Also transmitting PII data unencrypted to GA us (but GA does forbid that in their TOS as well). There is a BIG issue here which is usually splitting hairs, but in this case is super-relevant. Google's TOS forbids storing PII. GDPR
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As a USAian, my rough impression is that it's similar to circuit splits in Federal courts. GDPR is a Regulation (not a Directive), so it's law in all EU states. But each country's court may interpret its requirements slightly
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You might be missing the fact that this applies only to format strings, not strings in general. The interpolation into curly brackets is done by the format! (or println!) macros, not a language feature of strings in general.
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The link below is the pull request for the feature. The RFC dates to 2019, and the tracking issue is slightly more than two years old. I'm guessing we only started hearing about it when it became close to stabilization (around November
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You can't discriminate based on membership of protected classes, and the doctrine of "disparate impact" means you can't have an imbalanced impact against a protected class (even if unintentional!), unless there's a
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I don't know for sure, and this ruling is likely to get appealed so don't take it as final yet. But the Akamai service in question was a CDN. I have a hard time imagining an argument that would sanction CDNs but not apply to load
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The data stored by Google Analytics is most definitely not aggregated. Go into the User Explorer report (under "Audience): you will be able to trace the individual interactions of each visitor to your site. GDPR considers this data b
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Apparently something similar happened when X-Rays started becoming routine. Doctors X-raying kids saw evidence that so many of them had a history of broken bones from abuse. It took a while for the medical community as a whole to acknowle
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It's a decision from a German court. Here's a link to an English analysis of the ruling, which includes links to the decision itself: https://iapp.org/news/a/new-eu-data-blockage-as-german-court...
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A recent ruling about Cookiebot and their use of Akamai indicates that even EU-located servers run by a US company run afoul of GDPR. The core issue is that the US CLOUD Act gives US law enforcement access to data on those servers.
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I have some professional expertise in both Google Analytics and data privacy. The headlines always mention GDPR alone. I think it's more accurate to say that there are two laws which are incompatible: GDPR in Europe, and the CLOUD Act
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GDPR works the opposite of how you think it does. EU residents can claim rights under GDPR regardless of citizenship, and EU citizens in other countries are granted no protections. (I'm not sure about how it works for people whose lo
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by lmkg 5y ago
Whatsapp (owned by Facebook) was fined 225 million Euros for GDPR violations, the largest GDPR fine to date. Of that, 75 million was specifically for harvesting info from contact lists.
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> Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'. Randall Munroe, https://xkcd.com/552/ (mouseover text)
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I heard an interesting theory the other day: blog viability declined because Google killed Reader. Which indirectly ends up poisoning Google's biggest well, since blogs are an important source of relevant cross-domain links. I'm s
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I have certifications in data privacy. The idea that data is "property" or that it is "owned" by anyone is not codified in law. And as an analogy for how GDPR works, I think it's more harmful than helpful. I see GDP
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I mean, it's all cultural. But the idea is that a gift is personal , and that cash is impersonal . The universality is exactly what makes it impersonal. The ideal gift (again, in US cultural context) is one that reflects something un
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Facebook is incorporated in Ireland for tax purposes, as are many other US tech companies. This means that Facebook's GDPR violations are enforced by the Irish DPA. This is a conflict of interest for the Irish government: if they are n
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It has been pointed out that NFTs have actually been around for a few years, but their rise in popularity coincides with the IRS tightening some rules about using artwork for tax write-offs.
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The mod team is in a difficult position and are trying to thread a needle. * They actions they have taken have publicly-visible consequences, so they must publicly acknowledge it * They want to be respectful, and so minimize the amount of i

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