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The Google Fonts case was decided based on the transmission of the full IP address in a jurisdiction (Germany) where there are ways to identify a user by means of that address. CNI…

Strictly necessary cookies for a service the user explicitly requested . And, importantly, this is true even if no personal data is involved and the process is therefore not covere…

You're making the mistake of thinking that the cookie consent requirements are somehow a consequence of GDPR. The cookie consent requirements exist separately from and additionally…

It is not true that "functional" cookies are generally exempt from the consent requirement. What is concretely exempt are necessary cookies for a service that the user explicitly r…

The website tried to rely on legitimate interest as the legal basis for processing the data, and that precisely requires a balancing test between the interests of the website host …

A MAC of a message m can only be computed with the knowledge of a key K. Specifically, with a cryptographic hash function h, HMAC(K, m) = h(K + a || h(K + b || m)), where + is addi…

p^μ is the μ-th component of the vector p, and in an equation p^μ = m u^μ, μ is to be taken as a free variable, i.e. the equation is true for every μ. In relativity, Greek indices …

It may be forgivable to use dynamic mass in an article written for laymen and using a simple model of the atom, but I feel I should mention that the concept of objects changing mas…

This is what 23andMe said about that person's genome: "Has two mutations linked to limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. A person with two of these mutations typically has limb-girdle mu…

This reminds me of a blog post in German [1] by a person who due to a software bug had been falsely diagnosed by 23andMe with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. (Fortunately, he was a…

The linked image is comparing the announcement of Bergoglio's election to Wojtyła's funeral procession: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/aaf1067...

According to their latest election manifesto ( https://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Bundestagswahl_2009/Wahlprogra... ) their main points are: * legalisation of non-commercial copying * p…

Unfortuantely, many common words seem to be filtered by the API. Some however are not, and they show a common growth pattern: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=what%2C+you%2C+here

Obviously Assange (et al.) didn't ask anyone if they could leak sensitive data -- and perhaps they should have (but how exactly would that have gone do you expect?) -- but I believ…

I've seen it on Vista, 7 and on XP once IPv6 is enabled. Concerning sources, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-GB?query=rfc%2... turns up a few articles.

It's quite silly that the author doesn't know this, but the feature he requests exists already and has existed for 10 years -- Privacy Extesions for SLAAC in IPv6 (RFC3041). It's e…