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by oldcynic 8y ago
FB and LinkedIn ask for contacts (or at least used to). That's dozens of people's data, with at least one unique identifier for each, who did not provide informed consent in any way. So you are as safe as the most apathetic or tec
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> a single violation would financially destroy the company If you refer to the flowchart on how enforcement is to be handled (notably including referring to "proportionate"), the FAQs on regulator sites, and even the track re
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Thanks. Missed 'individual'... Mind I'd stick with the K&R approach and refer to compound statements as blocks in a beginner's primer. What I wouldn't do is "explain" in a way that will probably have
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Not a bad summary. Albeit with some odd choices. [EDIT: Reading a little more I'm revising down as summary. There's quite a bit that's amazingly tortuously explained, or slightly wrong. e.g. '//' doesn&#x
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By the time they've taken your skillset, added the skills team lead would like or wants to learn, the skills that are from a different role but manager thinks can be combined few can still recognise their own job. As a last pass CEO as
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They've reneged on many aspects of that since handover.
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> But Italian doctors believed different treatments were warranted Again no. "The Italian hospital had acknowledged it could not find a cure, but had proposed maintaining Alfie’s life for about two weeks while doctors tried to inve
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> The government has final say over healthcare decisions No, the medical professionals, i.e. doctors do. "the unanimous opinion of the doctors who have examined him and the scans of his brain is that almost all of his brain has bee
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Aren't judges appointed by the president in the US? Reports of Supreme Court candidates every time the US elects a president appears to indicate a lack of judicial independence. I'm not hugely well informed on US law so could be m
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UK courts have had judicial independence since the Act of Settlement. Governments don't appoint judges - now via an independent panel since the Blair govt abolished the Lord Chancellor, but even then govts didn't have influence or
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For this, a mail client, I doubt there'd actually be much saving going native - it's going to need browser level HTML either way. So here Electron may have negligible cost. Thunderbird easily goes over 300M when it's been run
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That's almost never the choice though is it? Who offers an Electron app and a native app? So the choice becomes use an Electron app or something else entirely.
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It's something privacy advocates have been asking for, for years, and Facebook have been completely ignoring them. Generally they have responded with the exact opposite of what privacy advocates would wish.
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My Nexus 4 developed an interesting one after the update to 5 and 5.0.1. Incoming calls would crash it half the time, or 5 seconds of silence on calls that didn't crash. The dialler was almost unusable. Was widely reported but never pr
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I'm sure that's a big part of it when every app wants to do a data grab. I'm also left thinking US law doesn't really do proportionate after a few of these discussions! :) For us in Europe 20 years of DPA must help - I d
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I did it a little over a year ago. Many frustrations with Android, switched to the iPhone SE (mainly due to size). Most of the time on android I was running native on Nexus. Apps are more consistent, and generally better designed. Wider ran
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Almost missed this thanks to the incorrectly flagged message up thread. > I don't think that people like you and people like me will ever agree in these discussions because you look at statistics and I look at possibilities. You may
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As odd as "I like to run on the spot when watching Netflix"
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Interesting part for me is the hilarious FUD where we got none when DPA came in. A good part of GDPR is already here with EU Data Protection Acts and what constitutes personal data is much the same. Many of the Kafkaesque and corruption sc
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From GDPR itself: Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency i
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Is it enough to identify a person? Name alone is probably not as many people share names, unless you have an unusual name. Add address and phone number and it will be. IP address on its own is not. Is "1.8m tall guy in green T-shirt w
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This is getting silly. The law will be enforced, just as current data protection is. The law can be enforced without every case attracting the maximum penalty. That's why nearly every law has a range of penalties. Accidental and mino
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I don't know how the legal system works in the US (I'm starting to think not very well), but that's not how it works. The process in the UK is something along the lines of the court will assess means to pay, then a fine wil
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Is it scaremongering to assume the maximum fine? Of course - years of legal precedent for current DPA clearly demonstrates this. If the track record showed hundreds of small business people rendered destitute thanks to half million fines it
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> If your revenue is less than €20m their fine is flat €20m Rubbish, this is just spreading FUD. From the UK ICO: "It’s true we’ll have the power to impose fines much bigger than the £500,000 limit the DPA allows us. It’s also true
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Sounds more like they are unable to maintain the code since the TES takeover. Perhaps from having a fraction of the former team or being an unmaintainable fur-ball? TES are a long standing UK company so Wikispaces will have already been sub
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You don't think that if it were anything to do with GDPR it would have at least rated a sentence on their closure page? So why try and make a conspiracy theory of it?
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Taking it from the guy who's spent 20 years building a business on it, with no compensation, is the just thing?
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It doesn't, it has Lenovo's SLIC in the BIOS. More than enough to activate Windows. Device manager would no doubt show it's a mess of not installed drivers though. Big OEMs including Dell and Lenovo use an activation baked in
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Please change link to the BBC story[0] this Jalopnik article links to, as this is riddled with errors. "Note that this took place in England, so the left-hand side is the driver side" No, in UK we drive on the left, the driver

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