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by rosnd 4y ago
>Even companies like FlightAware and FlightRadar24 rely on hobbyists to receive this data. Businesses blatantly operating in violation of EU laws might not be the best example here.
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by rosnd 4y ago
>ICO's guide to the UK GDPR does have a specific example of cars being identifiable[1] - "A vehicle’s registration number can be linked to other information held about the registration (eg by the DVLA) to indirectly identify th
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by rosnd 4y ago
> Again, this is public data It isn't! These are ephemeral radio transmissions which contain PII. You might collect those transmissions and publish them somewhere, but that would be illegal. > nobody has been able to successfully
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by rosnd 4y ago
That tangent was regarding the data sources used by the twitter account.
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by rosnd 4y ago
The elonjet twitter has nothing to do with anything, it's just a bot reposting adsbexchange.
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by rosnd 4y ago
>GDPR does not apply to the movements of aircraft, not even private jets. It sure as hell does, just like it applies to movements of cars and movements of mobile phones. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-
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by rosnd 4y ago
> Nope, you can get an SDR dongle and track planes all you want all the time even in the EU For example in Finland you would likely be violating the radio secrecy laws by merely listening unless you're actively involved in aviation
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by rosnd 4y ago
Relatively easily? Even if your business has zero presence in the EU, other businesses handling money for you likely do. US company using Paypal to accept money from US persons? Paypal has presence in the EU and will hand your money over.
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by rosnd 4y ago
You don't actually have to worry about any of this stuff, if you have the money to buy one of these you also have the money to register it in a third country. >It’s relatively impractical in most of Europe because they’re not allowe
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by rosnd 4y ago
In Europe it's not always legal to listen to unencrypted radio transmissions if you're not the intended recipient, but this is heavily country dependent and not rabbit hole worth diving into here. But what's definitely not
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by rosnd 4y ago
ADS-B transmissions are not "public data" you can look up, what you're referring to as "public data" are datasets of dubious legality from the likes of flightradar24 who operate ADS-B logging devices around the worl
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by rosnd 4y ago
What adsbexchange, flightradar & co. are doing is almost certainly illegal in Europe under the GDPR. This isn't exactly "public flight data", in many cases it's illegally collected and published flight data. E: I can
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by rosnd 4y ago
>It’s generally accepted that reporting on car movements is allowed as well. You don’t have a right to privacy of movement on public roads. This is certainly not true in Europe, and in the US there's generally zero restrictions on p
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by rosnd 4y ago
Why would the public need to know which plane is where, as opposed to just a plane being somewhere?
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by rosnd 4y ago
>How do they ever even lose? Lack of motivation. Relatively few people on the prosecution side truly care about winning, especially as time passes. Cases can easily take years, personnel changes ruin everything. If you have money and are
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by rosnd 4y ago
> Does having [...] Chichvarkin [...] in London hurt anyone? Dirty bad evil russian money was invested into wine, driving up prices?
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by rosnd 4y ago
HN doesn't attract many DDoS attacks, most websites don't attract any DDoS attacks. Historically HN has not been hosted on infrastructure that would be particularly resistant to DDoS attacks, nobody has been DDoSing it.
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by rosnd 4y ago
Why do you believe that this has strengthened dictatorship? The obvious conclusion is exactly the opposite, moving money out of dictatorships to the UK weakens dictatorships and strengthens the UK.
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by rosnd 4y ago
London real estate is expensive because it's highly desirable, most people buying it up are not using funds derived from criminal sources. It can be true that a pragmatic relationship with "dirty money" has played a role in m
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by rosnd 4y ago
Like what?
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by rosnd 4y ago
>This argument is like “what about the minors who want to date middle aged men?” To be fair, the Nordic countries tend to be very accepting of such cases.
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by rosnd 4y ago
> This highlights that most women in prostitution are not there by choice, but because they are forced into it. What about the men and women who are in prostitution by choice? A friend of mine is a SWer who drives a new Bentley, should s
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by rosnd 4y ago
Well yes, the people writing prostitution laws tend to fail to even consider the existence of male prostitutes.
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by rosnd 4y ago
As long as we're talking about regular laser pointers, at worst this mildly inconveniences the pilot. There have been tens of recorded cases of this every day for decades in the US alone, but not a single recorded accident. The idea th
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by rosnd 4y ago
Binance delisted USDC in september, since then the only way to "purchase" USDC on Binance has been by requesting and USD withdrawal via USDC.
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by rosnd 4y ago
For some fairly absurd definitions of "endanger", yeah.
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by rosnd 4y ago
I'm not convinced "that sucks" is a reasonable way of describing what essentially amounts to people transferring vast amounts of wealth from an ostensibly unfriendly state to the US. This seems like something US authorities o
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by rosnd 4y ago
That's correct.
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by rosnd 4y ago
Thanks to always great Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press/SDNYlive for sharing this. #1 source for anything SDNY https://twitter.com/innercitypress/
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US vs. SBF(documentcloud.org)
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