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this alongside the ban on lab grown meat[0] and the recent proposed ban to use english words in government documents[1] is just proof on how antiquated and backward looking the government is. so glad i left almost 10 years ago. [EDIT] the privacy regulator is independent from the government but elected by the parliament every 7 years. nevertheless this is a testament on how in general, regardless of political party,…
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About once a week I consider dropping out of the tech industry and becoming a politician just so I don't have to sit and watch by the sidelines as incompetent, ignorant people, who studied humanities with not a drop a technical aptitude, bullshit their way through funding and regulating technology. They are never well informed enough to come up with any sort or coherent solution, because they're barely capable in act…
Show me a politician that is?
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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 Sweden, I'm receiving multiple spam calls per week from UK. WTF is up with this?
Profit! But not for them.
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I have a unpopular opinion about this, but IMO it is the population that causes this. Vast swaths of Europe are rural especially in the south. Very, very averse to any kind of change. I'm in the Netherlands as you can tell and 'even' we are not that much more progressive. There is currently a massive farmer uprising and everybody is complaining literally non-stop about just about everything. Meanwhile nobody has even…
Incidentally, immediately after reading the comments here I went to Ars and saw this, which when you read it fits perfectly : https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/these-angry-dutc... Just one sample quote, but it's worth reading it all: > The dispute over nitrogen permits has put Microsoft’s data center developments in direct opposition to an increasingly powerful farming community. Earlier this month, a new p…
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> didn't implement the "consent dialog" just right I think it’s called a “consent thingy”
It's called "That one more piece of Brussels crap that didn't solve the problem but makes people lives worse"
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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/…
I guess you'd want follow
- Felix Reda https://twitter.com/Senficon (former European MP for the Purate Party)
- NOYB EU https://twitter.com/NOYBeu (fighting the GDPR fight)
- Max Schrems https://twitter.com/maxschrems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems)
These are more or less the usual suspects you'd follow :)
Writing from rome, italy. These bureaucrats only pretend to work. The number of privacy violations in italy is staggering, i have to take 10 calls a day from power companies because they have access to all the phone number of anybody who has a gas or energy contract. I had to change phone numbers. Meanwhile they are going against a service that as far as i know does not even require your name to serve you.
These companies are using the old phone infrastructure that on paper could be traced without problems. Yet nothing, they operate with impunity
I have a long history of criticizing the EU data protection laws on HN, and every time I do it I get downvoted to hell. Maybe this time HN takes the time to understand how poorly implemented GDPR is.
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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.
In the US, I used to receive multiple spam calls a day. A few years ago, I turned on the iOS setting that sends all phone numbers not in my contacts straight to voicemail and haven't looked back. It's occasionally inconvenient—maybe once or twice a year I deal with a company that needs to call me. But if it's a call from a real person, I can always listen to the voicemail and call them back. Most spam calls either do…