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The concern is about the Digital Markets Act and not the GDPR. To quote https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-05/meta-won-... : A number of companies, including Meta, hav…

While I support almost everything you said there is a national standards body and some standards. See: 1) https://www.fitko.de/ 2) https://www.xoev.de/ 3) https://www.xrepository.d…

I think the term gatekeeper makes more sense if applied to companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft & Co, with their search engines, maps, app stores, operating systems, browsers ..…

The European Union Digital Markets Act, coming into effect in May 2023, explicitly forbids such behavior. (If twitter is classified as a "gatekeeper".) https://commission.europa.eu…

Our world in data has a nice graph showing some countries that where able to decouple CO2 emission from GDP growth showing that this is indeed possible: https://ourworldindata.org/…

SBC and aptX have the same quality (at the same bit rate). You are most likely talking about SBC XQ and aptX HD: http://soundexpert.org/articles/-/blogs/audio-quality-of-sbc... & h…

I don't find the argument "richer countries can emit more CO2" to be helpful. The richer the country the more money is available to act responsible. Even in your GDP adjusted data …

Some data: Per capita CO2 emissions in France are half than in Germany: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/germany?country=DEU~F... (ps: I am an opponent of nuclear energy. But…

A German court can not, in fact, serve a court order to Volkswagen America. (Technically it can, but the order is not enforceable.) A German court is also forbidden to force Volksw…

Searching for "12.1 Regions. Customer can specify the location(s) where Customer Data will be processed within the" (as mentioned in the verdict) yields AWS as the problematic sub-…

summary (English): https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=VK_Baden-W%C3%BCrttemburg... news article (German): https://www.golem.de/news/vergabekammer-clouddienste-von-us-... primary so…

No, opening a connection and exchanging IPs falls under "technically necessary" processing of personal data. But from a legal point of view we, as a European company, are forbidden…

To add: The reason why US companies can't be GDPR complaint is because of Article 5 and the conflict with the Cloud Act: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CE…

From what I understand the legal exception to process personal data without consent is written down in Article 6 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... (pa…

IP addresses (for connection setup) are personal data: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo... You can process IP addresses without consent only if it is te…

That is not true. IP addresses are explicitly stated as personal data. That they are a technical requirement for a connection only has repercussions on how you are allowed to store…

Yes, that might be a real difference. (But I, personally, find sugar very addictive. YMMV) But what happens if we compare the health implications? Obesity, and sugar as one of many…

The 5% (or rather 95%) comes from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/e-cigarettes-an-e...

So does sugar. So what's exactly the argument? If we forbid everything that might be dangerous the world would look very different. Half our food would vanish. Cars get banned... T…

15 years ago when I worked in the music streaming space we also had to push users to playlists instead of albums. The reason, in Germany at least, was that a playlist only payed 1/…

While thinking about it I found an interesting fact: If they don't produce the data that lead to the account ban because they they "don't have it", they don't actually have proof o…

I don't think so. I have not worked on many fraud detection systems but in all cases there was a very detailed record in the logs of what happened and how the decision came to be. …

In this case cloudflare has produced a legal effect with putting the domain into pending delete because this is an ownership transfer back to the registrar (of a property they don'…

If you live in the EU the article 15 of the GDPR grants you the right to ask about the details. Often companies reply that they don't need to answer because of ¨security¨ but this …