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Who would back up their phone to the cloud if they were involved in illegal activities? This is going to bite more innocent people through false positives than criminals who alread…

Might have, judging from this story.

It didn't have to be binding, just advisory or symbolic with no action to be taken. It might have prevented most of the current situation if the result had been to remain (which wo…

What about the Instagram and WhatsApp apps? Do they behave the same way?

The explicit consent request is what they can do. It should have been there from the start, but better late than never.

Anything that falls in that 'personal data' segment above that belongs to me has to be obtained with my prior, explicit consent. And these bits of data with my name or other detail…

But in this particular case, it's the company doing the recordings, not the owner of the device, so it's a slightly different situation, in my opinion. That said... The owner could…

In terms of GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ > ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiabl…

There are some rules concerning security cameras as well. I recently found out that private CCTV (at least in the UK) can't record public areas (e.g only your porch). Someone got s…

Not in the case of the device being someone else's. I don't have any Google or Amazon smart listeners, so I never accepted them. Yet if my voice is in any of these recordings, well…

Doesn't mean you can use live data for tests. Should be opt-out by default, with the chance to opt-in if you wish to collaborate with your data.

And not to be anywhere near anyone else's listening devices. Isn't there a law in some US states that there needs to be consent before recording someone? How does this fit in and w…

I'm guessing it's some kind of A/B testing done by Amazon. Do people trust in the Amazon brand, or do they rather buy from unknown brands that offer cheap but decent quality (compa…

Yeah, I've seen those, but they are slightly different and have been available for a few years already (I believe before 2014, the date of this project, but I could be wrong). I'm …

I only started reading this one yesterday. I honestly know nothing of this book other than everybody always mentions it (along with 1984, Animal Farm and Farenheit 451). The first …

This reminds me of 'The Gods Themselves', by Asimov. Doesn't talk about a mirror universe per se, but a parallel one. It's one of my favourite Asimov stories outside the Foundation…

Slightly off-topic, but couldn't help but notice on the Projects list a really cool version of the London tube. Unfortunately it seems it's from 2014 (there's even some quote from …

I've been on a fair amount of sleeper trains and the Caledonian has been the most comfortable so far. For the opposite, the most uncomfortable one to sleep in was the Hong Kong to …

I did recently Chicago to Las Vegas with the Southwest Chief and, while it's not as shiny, it was still a lovely train (the cabins, the restaurant and the fantastic viewing lounge)…

You can choose to share your email with each developer or not, so if you feel particularly attached to a service you can disable the email obfuscation. Or sign up withouth Apple ID…

Hm... The Amazon Prime app doesn't allow purchases in the app, you've got to purchase through Amazon and then you can watch them just fine.

Sometimes you have to trade up some part of the experience to be able to enjoy it. I travel by cruise (and trains) a lot, but I do mostly on small ships and off season. It's cheape…

Thanks for the explanation :)

What about smallpox? Wasn't it eradicated completely in the 80s?