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Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by swores »

slowmotiony wrote: post #456
swores wrote: post #302

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I think the scepticism comes from the fact that there haven't been many stories about small businesses being hit with GDPR violations as minor as that; not that it's not a technically, feasibly valid story. So while I won't join in the assumption that the story was a lie/exaggeration, I am equally interested in getting the full details because I'd like to know if it's the case that minor violations like that actually…

https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/german-websi... https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-google-fonts-a...

Thanks!

Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by int_19h »

segasaturn wrote: post #457
Veen wrote: post #431

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Singapore is a parliamentary democracy with elected members of parliament and president. It is certainly not a "totalitarian country", although it could be considered authoritarian compared to western democracies.

People sometimes conflate being a single-party state with being a dictatorship/totalitarianism. Japan is considered a model democracy and has been run by the same party for over 70 years! It's just another way of doing democracy, there's no one size fits all approach to it.

Er, who considers Japan a model democracy outside of Japan?

And yes, democracy can be authoritarian as well. The problem is that if the government controls public discourse to a sufficient extent, any democracy becomes a sham no matter how fair elections themselves are.

Re: Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

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Post by revelio »

isp wrote: post #360
revelio wrote: post #349

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You're right, I was mistaken. What they changed is they now offer the ability to opt-out of that: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6950777-chatgpt-plus https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrnC-_A7JFs4LbIuze...

Thank you - these links are helpful. From the above, my understanding is that they currently offer opt out for the paid subscription users only ("ChatGPT Plus"). Perhaps they may end up compelled by this case to add a similar opt out to the free version. Or, possibly, to allow a free choice - where opting in and opting out are equally straightforward.

Maybe. I found the link to the form in the Plus FAQ, but neither the answer nor the form say anywhere that it's limited to Plus. I see nothing stopping anyone from filling it out even for free users. I guess you do need an "organization ID", but I think I have one of those even though I'm just an individual.

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Post by jowdones »

LightBug1 wrote: post #466
fofoz wrote: post #109

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I am also writing from Italy. In the last few months I have received so many spam calls from UK numbers that I have been forced to ban the whole of Britain from my phone. Good job Data Protection authority.

Report from the UK. I'm a British prince. I have a business proposition for you. It could be financially very lucrative. Having left the EU, we are finding it hard to make ends meet. If you send me £50k,I will be able to release £100m frozen in evil EU banks. I will give you 50%.

The British prince guy was a fraud. I'll be honest with you, I'm a bum but God be my witnesses, if you send me $100k, I'll unfreeze for you $50,000 in a Swiss Bank (not Credit Suisse).

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Post by smegger001 »

pkaye wrote: post #491
munk-a wrote: post #412

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Report from Canada: I might receive something like three spam calls in the past year. I don't know why my spam dropped so significantly when I moved up to Canada but it was quite dramatic compared to the US. There are periodic waves but I tend to miss out of them - I suspect because Canada works hard to prevent dumb auto-dialers from working.

I feel the STIR/SHAKEN changes have made a difference with spam calls for me in the US.

I don't know, my wife gets spam calls almost daily, but i almost never get spam calls. on the otherhand I almost never actually give anyone my real phone number and just give everyone my Google Voice number instead. Google seems pretty good at detecting and filtering them out. the only people with my real phone number are family members, my employer, and a few friends from high-school that had it from before i signed up for google voice in the 2000s.

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Post by Tade0 »

nemo44x wrote: post #120
Zurrrrr wrote: post #87

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Singapore has to be one of the worst places to live. I don't care how 'nice' their society might seem, their overstep is too steep by far. "Custom officers can subject travellers to a drug screening test at the point of entry to Singapore. If you test positive for drugs, you can be arrested and prosecuted, even if the drugs were consumed prior to your arrival in the country." That's insanity.

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So it's basically a homeowners association, just scaled up to a whole country?

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Post by mattrighetti »

lostlogin wrote: post #484
vorpalhex wrote: post #304

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PiHole is local. You can docker it but you have some.. issues depending on configuration. AdGuard is a pihole like SaaS (that seems pretty good, it's the sort of thing I'd get for my mom).

Would this work? I assumed that ISP blocking would still block even when I use a Pihole.

In most of my cases, they're just blocking the DNS.

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Post by njarboe »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #420
agilob wrote: post #413

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Italian phone number had to get there somehow, probably sold by X, an Italian company?

Probably phone numbers follow some numbering scheme etc. so it is relatively easy to spam everyone with automated dialing and handing the numbers that prove out to the scammer. Thus while it is possible sold by X, it is just as possible randomly pulled from limited pool of possible numbers.

Back in the good old days my mom worked for a short time for a marketing company making cold calls. Back when long distance phone rates were expensive the company would set up people locally and then just call every possible local number (eg. 678-XXXX). People with an unlisted number would get mad and ask where she found their number.

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Post by swores »

illiarian wrote: post #500
swores wrote: post #499

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I think there is an update being discussed? Away from my desk but will look in a bit

I saw this discussed in my Twitter feed today, so second-third-hand account is that the update has been in the works for almost a decade, being fought tooth and nail by the same companies that fight any other privacy initiative. Hearsay and rumors, so don't take this seriously

Ah yeah, this is what I came across earlier when looking for the full 2002 text: "Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL concerning the respect for private life and the protection of personal data in electronic communications and repealing Directive 2002/58/EC (Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications)"

But it's from 2017... https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?darkschemeov...

(If the twitter discussion was interesting, any suggested accounts to follow for this sort of topic?)

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