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Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Well, if the prices are 1. the legal tools to make Spotify not lockin ones personal content and 2. Read some random article on the internet where the publisher actively does not want to protect the readers privacy then I think I know what price I want.
> where the publisher actively does not want to protect the readers privacy
You don't know that. They may take privacy very seriously, but don't see any point in risking possible GDPR issues, especially if they get no income from people in Europe.
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#14It's amusing that the reason this was caught was a human picked up the phone and said, hey, is this right?
She would have gotten away it, too, if it weren't for that meddling forensic examiner!
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#15clever girl
With smarts like that she could make something of herself, rather than go down the path of criminality.
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#16amusingly enough, coming from the EU the site told me: "451: Unavailable due to legal reasons"
For local news organizations who don't get any revenue from foreign viewers, it's much cheaper (and more profitable) to just block Europeans than to try and comply with GDPR.
this isn't correct, and i wish it would stop being repeated on HN. if you don't target/do business with Europeans specifically, there is nothing to comply with. what jurisdiction does Europe have?
however, a lot of "small", local news organisations are actually owned by huge (multi-national) corporations. they might work hard to preserve that small appearance, but do have a reason to fear the GDPR.
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#17The forensic details are lacking. Sure, it would be natural to suspect the person benefiting the most from the charges being dropped. However, do they have her personal home IP address shown accessing the system? Also, if the court system can be so easily manipulated, it might be time to take a look at that.
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#18That smirk on her face seems well deserved, even in what might be a mugshot
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
For local news organizations who don't get any revenue from foreign viewers, it's much cheaper (and more profitable) to just block Europeans than to try and comply with GDPR.
this isn't correct, and i wish it would stop being repeated on HN. if you don't target/do business with Europeans specifically, there is nothing to comply with. what jurisdiction does Europe have? however, a lot of "small", local news organisations are actually owned by huge (multi-national) corporations. they might work hard to preserve that small appearance, but do have a reason to fear the GDPR.
> if you don't target/do business with Europeans specifically, there is nothing to comply with. what jurisdiction does Europe have?
Because as you said yourself, they're part of a large organization that DOES do business with Europe, but that part of the business doesn't get any money from Europe, so there is no reason for that part of the business to go to the effort of complying.