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Author here. Yep, that's close to my thinking. I don't actually believe that Cursor (or similar tools) are completely shit. But I worry that the Cursor team perhaps doesn't care wh…

Offering a service to European consumers? Probably not a big issue. GDPR compliance can be challenging without a suitable mindset, but it's not impossible. * Consider that the GDPR…

I can't agree, but maybe this is semantics :) For something to be personal data, it must be information that relates to an identifiable natural person. There are two criteria here:…

Identifiability for IP addresses uses an even lower standard. The GDPR says that for something to be truly anonymous, there must not be any “reasonably likely” means for identifica…

> Do you, as the website operator, have the right to copy and serve these fonts to your visitors? All the fonts on Google Fonts are open source. When GDPR came into force in 2018 I…

The court judgement addresses this exact point. There are previous judgements ( Breyer v Bundesrepublik Deutschland ) that establish that dynamic IP addresses are personal data. Th…

I discussed that argument over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30139489 Summary: A company did try the “it was the browser, not us” argument in the “Fashion ID” case. Th…

> The fact is that CDNs and similar third party services play an important role. They no longer do, since browsers implemented cache isolation. > if I "host" my fonts in S3 do I ha…

This argument was tried in the Fashion ID case. A company had inserted Facebook Like buttons on the web page, and argued that it was not responsible for the ensuing disclosure of p…

Careful. That is an 100% unofficial site. It is not chartered or funded by the EU. The linked article is from “Richie Koch”an editor working on human rights stories who wrote the a…

JSON lets you write numbers. They can have a sign, decimal part, and an exponent. The standard euphemistically describes this as: > JSON is agnostic about the semantics of numbers.…

If a study is observing how human reacts to a certain situation, that's research with human subjects. The Linux study observed how maintainers react to bugs, this CCPA/GDPR request…

There is like 15 years of official guidance and case law on ePrivacy, with relevant guidance from the Art 29 Working Party (precursor to the current EDPB) published around 2014. Bu…

TTDSG is finally a correct implementation of the 2005 ePrivacy directive. § 25 TTDSG literally just rephrases the exact ePrivacy requirements. The pendant to the above quote is § 2…

It's a legal term the EU came up with to cover things like websites and apps in a technology-agnostic manner.

You're quoting something about “5G Ultra Wideband”, which seems to be a brand name for mmWave. Yes, mmWave has very short range. But 5G isn't just mmWave. It's in many ways an evol…

Transport encryption is table stakes. It's really no longer something that can be mentioned as if it were something special. When I browse to a random website I don't think “wow HT…

Would separate SSD metadata devices help if the pool, as in Heap.io's case, already consists entirely of SSDs? It's obviously a win for a use case like Rsync.net's where the data i…

The site does explain its methodology. By default, it shows the costs when using the cheapest post-paid plan with at least 500MB allowance for at least 30 days – cheapest in absolu…

Probably a call-back to this post that made the rounds on HN a few months ago: https://www.brandons.me/blog/write-code-not-too-much-mostly-...

Every EU company has been having these compliance problems since the Privacy Shield invalidation in last year's Schrems II judgement. It is only Facebook that had the lawyers (and …

It is primarily the authors view. The proposed regulation – like many EU regulations – can also apply to non-EU entities. In this sense, the EU does try to exert extraterritorial j…

The text in question does define more closely what it means to offer services in the EU. To lawyers (and to anyone who has experience with GDPR compliance) this is not a particular…

When using a legitimate interest (opt-out) as a legal basis, the interest must be both legitimate AND outweigh the data subject's rights and freedoms. This requires a balancing tes…

They were not asking for consent in the meaning used by the GDPR. They are merely "asking" you to agree to updated terms, i.e. their contract with you. GDPR allows processing of da…