oldcynic

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by oldcynic 8y ago
Article 49 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. All penalties under EU law must be proportionate. As a result there is already considerable case law, from multiple individual laws and countries, at the CJEU to define the extent of propo
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At which point the data subject can report them to the regulator. Hopefully everyone receiving such a response will do so. Companies have had 2 years warning. For most small business and startups this is no big deal as 1 or 2 reports to t
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Proportionate for both. Destroying a small or micro business clearly isn't proportionate. Again firmly established in CJEU case law from previous businesses within the EU who have been hit with too severe a fine for some breach of EU l
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> because the fines are so steep — violating GDPR will cost a company Will? The usual misinformation then.
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I think, though I could be mistaken, that it originates from German law. The UK had a very similar requirement established in case law. Nonetheless the EU views proportionality as a central principle enshrined in Article 49 of the EU Char
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Because we have an entire legal framework with centuries of precedent. Just about every law and regulation gives just a maximum penalty without countless cases of those being used to hobble foreign competitors. See also the answer to when
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Most of us in Europe don't find it especially vague, poorly written or overly broad. I think most of us are firmly in favour of it, and not especially concerned by the effect on our companies, especially when we've already been
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The most rational piece on GDPR I've yet seen. So of course you are being downvoted.
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Few quite understood it was also a full-blown Amiga in there but with looks making it living room friendly - intended to match up with typical hifi or VCR. It actually had some niche success hidden in early multimedia kiosks and info system
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Not to forget the whole point of BT's 21st century network, or whatever they called it, was to get the whole backbone on TCP with hugely upgraded capacity in the expectation of nationwide FTTH. With initially 10, planned 100M connecti
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If only that were true. The Thatcher Government stopped BT's already running rollout of FTTH in 1990. That gave us cable competition from Blueyonder who did bugger all and a BT regulated against playing in that space any more. Hell H
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The UK could have had world leading broadband were it not for Mrs T. She decided BT's late 1980s decision to rollout fibre was anti-competitive and killed it in 1990 when we were pretty much leading the world [0]. So the grindingly s
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How is it spin? Just means there are a lot of people who believe doing OK encompasses having less than $400 ready cash. I might call it blind optimism seeing as pg 21 of the same PDF shows the sources they would consider to fund an emergenc
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Fertility rate will come down as incomes rise and child mortality falls. Until recently Ethiopia had one of the world's highest child mortality rates so I would expect some significant lag.
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Not any more. :) They were variant spellings way back in Middle English (roughly Norman conquest to 1500) when they split off from the French root. Ordnance now means of military, guns and armaments (cf Ordnance Survey) Ordinance means an o
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The same Amazon who have had publicity for shutting down your entire account, along with associated services, if you have the "wrong" profile of returns? Sure I know some will abuse returns policies, just as some buy an outfit in
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V for Vendetta springs to mind, depending on how young the kids are. Although it's too clear early on that it's the regime that's bad not our bad guy hero. Grendel, Grendel, Grendel[0] Superb children's animation from th
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Yet most of the large corporations are taking exactly that view. GDPR can't come soon enough.
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Nice to be so perfect (or is it overchecking via OCD?) to never have forgotten your keys/specs/coat, ever left a light on or been distracted by an interruption.
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For the same reason that we now understand Santa Claus as the shitty Coca Cola character invented as an early 20th century ad. The original is lost to all except historical scholars and all we're left with is the pastiche dripping in s
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IP address alone on an anonymous web access log need not be. Start combining it with persistent cookies or a logged in user etc and it clearly becomes personal data as it is then enough to identify someone. The clause in the regulation is q
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Fully agree. Space operatic, strange and dark. It's the first book of the series, but it is not in any way a weaker book. What's not to love? It and Look to Windward were the two most memorable for me. A fabulous series that also
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This seems to be a Sodastream made to be barely functional. A Samsung fridge with built in Sodastream seems a far better home for $1000, or even just an actual Sodastream which would leave enough change for a few years worth of flavours.
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> If your criteria for judging laptop keyboards is, "does this feel like an external mechanical keyboard" Hardly, but then I don't say or even imply that by mentioning I bought an external mechanical. I bought it during my
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The best Apple keyboard is just "OK". Have a 2015 MBP, and it's OK. Whether Macbook Pro or the extended iMac keyboard they seem designed to be nice to look at with no consideration of what they are like to actually type on. I
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I prefer the old feel and travel, as it's more like a proper keyboard, but not enough to avoid the Thinkpad chiclet on feel. What kills it for me is the rearrangement needed by going from 7 row (with web forward/back and a proper
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It used to be, not any more. The 2016 made it so large that it was constantly reacting whilst typing. It was infuriating. I've almost never managed that on the 2015 or earlier models even though I would sometimes touch the touchpad whi
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> It's whether they're predictable enough I'm used to the law going easy for a first offence, or an accidental breach. Occasionally we have separated offences (murder and manslaughter for example), but most of the time the
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Depends. I've downloaded a fair number of Electron apps, and ultimately deleted or aborted the download of most of them. VSC is the one that currently survives. If it's something that needs most of a browser and HTML - like an e
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> two independent judges each assessing a fine As I understand it the penalty is assessed and levied by the regulator. Just like DPA penalties where the number of people receiving any fine at all has been minuscule. The proportionality o

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