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Under the US CLOUD Act, three letter agencies can compel Facebook to produce user data wherever in the world it is. When any other country has a law like that, they are obviously t…

TikTok doesn't operate in China. All TikTok data is stored either in the USA or Singapore. There's a Dublin data center underway. Douyin is the original TikTok. It operates exclusi…

Let's not forget a lot of the smear campaigns against TikTok were secretly funded by Facebook/Meta https://www.engadget.com/meta-targeted-victory-tiktok-smear-...

The Biometrics was collected for face overlays. Want to look like a lion? They scan your face, use their algorithm to stretch the lion face on you, and because you're moving, it's …

Let's not forget OFAC lists, anti money laundering laws and FATCA requirements. These are driven primarily from the USA but the penalties are felt globally. Your employer likely ha…

Non-paywall version of article: https://archive.ph/AyvrU

ByteDance, Alphabet, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Apple BANAMMA or NABAMMA

That's being encouraged by California law: either honor DNT or come up with something else: https://www.dwt.com/blogs/privacy--security-law-blog/2020/07...

Yes, if the organizations are targeting consumers in the EEA (EU + a few extra countries). It's part of the reason why these companies are required to have an Article 27 EU Rep res…

The three have a lot in common, with key differentiators e.g. the backbone connectivity of GCP is far different than that of AWS. What worked for me is that I went deep into one of…

https://www.mashed.com/66838/secret-history-breakfast/ and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258276062_English_B...

To ‘protect it from rain and road debris’ of course /s

Or let it ‘drop off’ on an area of private property with a video camera on it. See who comes looking for it.

So the obvious question then is should we be allowed place trackers in police cars, so we can track them on Waze (for example), and it would be a crime for them to remove it. Equiv…

There are a lot of derogations in GDPR. These could easily cover the current case in point (and the sharing of data with the UK NHS etc) "The GDPR provides several exemptions and d…

They are different but well related 'laws'. The 'Cookie Law' is the 2011 ePrivacy Directive. it will be replaced by the ePrivacy Regulation (eventually). https://www.cookielaw.org/…

Agreed. Seems like an ad-hominem. There is often a huge lag between funding, submission for publication and final publication. His interpretation of the rules would be widely agree…

In most EU countries: Yes. They are elected members of the Parliament who are assigned a portfolio by the prime minister. To be clear: someone elected them , in the example of Irel…

The issue is that if it was written down it would be well defined. There would be legal cases for clarification rather than loosely defined precedents. It's too fluffy and malleabl…

This is where a written constitution is super important. The UK (or England & Wales to be specific) doesn't have one, and relies on 'constitutional conventions' (which needless to …