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grabeh

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About grabeh

London based in-house lawyer prone to delusions of learning to code.

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    Comment #46518252

    Painful. Stopped reading after first few paragraphs.

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    Comment #37348496

    Interesting! A rather cynical approach. Although preferable to naivety on my part - I'd expect a court to hold the list exhaustive if challenged.

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    Comment #37348391

    No, that is true. There are multiple interpretations here. I gave the most optimistic one!

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    Comment #37348297

    Why would they single out those specific uses then, if you consider express prohibitions are necessary?

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    Comment #37348215

    Key word is "may" be completely irrelevant! Of course, if you're providing an Excel of customer data, it will be relevant if the user is in the EU. But still, consent won't be rele…

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    Comment #37348008

    GDPR and indeed any data protection laws may well be completely irrelevant in the context of Microsoft's services. Even if relevant, consent is unlikely to be a relevant as a proce…

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    Comment #37347986

    To an extent, think about vested interests here. Mozilla has little to gain by showcasing how clear a rival's new service agreement is! The AI services section seems pretty clear i…

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    Comment #35165126

    Reminds me of the quote: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic"

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    Comment #25302343

    But a unique identifier doesn't necessarily identify a living person, particularly in isolation. It's just that it's frequently associated with a load of additional information tha…

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    Comment #25301791

    We do see a few references to cookies in the ePrivacy Directive but absolutely right to drive home the point that it's technology agnostic!

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    Comment #25301770

    Love the contrast between the title and the text. This isn't even about GDPR, it's about a completely different piece of legislation, the E-Privacy Directive. This is completely ag…

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    Comment #25301744

    I wouldn't trust any article that purports to be about GDPR that uses the term 'PII' a term which itself isn't anywhere to be seen in the regulation! In reality an IP address is ge…

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    Comment #22234990

    Yes, of course. I was just explaining why I thought you'd misinterpreted the original poster's comment.

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    Comment #22234736

    No, they're implying that there's been a failure by pro-leavers to acknowledge that many of these roles have been in the recent past been performed by immigrants from Europe. Now w…

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    Comment #22159456

    https://www.mbg.codes/ Built with Gatsby, MDX and Theme UI. Yes, overkill!

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    Comment #22056257

    The concept of processing necessary for the performance of a contract is interpreted extremely narrowly by data protection law. Rightly so, because otherwise it would give entities…

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    Comment #21513130

    I would strongly recommend assignment to the company. As you allude to, any investor will want to see core IP in the ownership of the company, and to not have this, even in the pre…

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    Comment #21441106

    For sure - that was my thinking on the alternative scenario. If that happens then that certainly changes the picture somewhat although my other points remain true around what Gramm…

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    Comment #21426951

    I think there's a few points: a) at what point is content uploaded to Grammarly. Is it uploaded automatically as you input (if you have the Chrome extension), or is it uploaded onl…

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    Comment #21426854

    The rights Grammarly ( https://www.grammarly.com/terms ) take to use your data is limited as follows: "in connection with the provision of the Software and the Services and to impr…

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    Comment #18912268

    Is this being shared with a view to getting more contributors or is it being shared with a view to it actually being used at the moment? If the latter, I would have serious reserva…

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    Comment #18083983

    I think the point is that Tachyons should be good for 90/95% of the styling you want to apply to the site. I think the creator would be the first to say that if you need something …

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    Comment #17128059

    Thanks! Although I gotta say that they offer no options in relation to analytics cookies which is technically in breach of the e-Privacy directive as those cookies are not strictly…

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    Comment #17124853

    It may be a good policy, but this is unrelated to the point on cookie consent made in the parent post. In fact the Juro site uses a variety of analytics cookies without even having…

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