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My first thought was "huh, I wonder if they follow GDPR, that starts sound to like Article 32 violation" (related to security of processing). I checked the privacy policy and yes, …

Storing IP address itself is not illegal. The questions are: 1) what is the legal basis for storing it and if that's proper or not (e.g. legitimate interest requires balancing test…

> If the company decides that a certain user should not see the website, the user will not see the website, and no one will know about it, and the user will have no recourse. If th…

Of one year. How many years does it take complete the investigation and let courts handle appeals? I assume they do not need to change behavior nor can the fine increase during the…

That's legalization setback, not court setback.

Can you be more specific? The only related court cases I'm aware of are U.S. The Crew lawsuit which seems to have reached settlement recently and the French case regarding which I …

No, it's not. ePD is lex specialis in relation to original Data Protection Directive (and later GDPR). DPD was replaced by GDPR, ePD was not. There has been talks about ePrivacy Re…

"legitimate interest" is legal basis in GDPR. ePD (which governs access to cookies) does not have such legal basis, only consent and the two exceptions. Other processing (like afte…

This is actually slightly narrower exception than people (and regulators) think. The exception is: > strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service …

Well, if you presented them with list of 100 partners each with 20 page of privacy policies and they accept it within 10 seconds it should be tricky to argue that user actually rea…

Legitimate interest is not currently enough to read or write cookies. You need either consent or it must be "strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society …

That's uBlock Origin Lite, not uBlock Origin. They are two very different extensions. Lite, for example, does not allow you to add custom filters.

If someone is in EU and is affected by this they could potentially utilize GDPR to make both Microsoft and LG take responsibility for this. It's hard to say directly from the artic…

That's good if true. When did it change? I very much do remember that back when the change happened the modal I received didn't actually say anything ( https://news.ycombinator.com…

No for what? The opt-in for model training? About a year ago Anthropic changed "Allow use of your chats and coding sessions to train and improve Anthropic AI models" to default to …

Sure, but the point is more that once you submit feedback then the usual "opt out of using my data for training" no longer apply and at least that reply (and possibly whole convers…

They don't use your general chats it if you have opted out (note: opted out, not opted in). However if you submit feedback then whole conversation can be used. https://help.openai.…

There are multiple ways to use feedback. Personally I would often be fine with actual human reading my feedback, taking in account the points I made and evaluating how it should af…

Aren't the cameras on city's land or did city lease the land to Flock? If they are on city's land couldn't city require that Flock removes their stuff from city's property or city …

It's unfortunately somewhat common these days and personally I actively avoid any place which does this. At least it's only somewhat common rather than the standard so it's still p…

Personally I do agree, but enforcement is unfortunately behind DPAs and it's pretty clear that they are trying to avoid ruling on it. In theory someone could directly sue some comp…

Not quite. > This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication over an electronic comm…

It's called "pay-or-okay" (or "consent-or-pay") and there hasn't been many decisions on it yet which has led noyb to sue German DPAs: https://noyb.eu/en/years-inactivity-pay-or-ok-…

In 2022 I got physical mail about leaving a review for something I bought from Amazon (sold by company X, shipped by Amazon) in exchange for Amazon Gift Card. It contained the name…

2 weeks ago it was $60 billion apparently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553224 It might be higher now.