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Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

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Re: Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

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Post by stavros »

jonesjohnson wrote: post #55
surgical_fire wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in EU. I am totally in support to force Meta down through government's big stick. While they are at it, I hope they do it to the other big techs too. Being a "hacker type" (whatever that means) does not equate to being complacent to these companies abusing their economic power.

Then I propose you should support https://noyb.eu/ Their track record is pretty good.

If you support them (I do, they do great work), please set up a yearly subscription. Predictable revenue is very valuable for organizations.

Re: Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

youngtaff wrote: post #63
aurareturn wrote: post #10

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So they finally admit that it was a mistake. Even EU government websites had annoying giant cookie banners. Yet, some how the vast majority of HN comments defend the cookie banners saying if you don't do anything "bad" then you don't need the banners.

Cookie banners are made obtrusive by the people running CMPs as they want to make it as hard as possible to stop collecting the data

Funny thing is that I often will go out of my way to find the least permissive settings if the banner is obnoxious or has a dark pattern.

Re: Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

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Post by nitwit005 »

ljosifov wrote: post #23
jonesjohnson wrote: post #9

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like UK, you mean? boy that did really work out well for them!

So far so good - and I say this as one voting remain. The only gripe I have is that our domestic doomers were even more stupid than the EU ones. Ours were the progenitors of many of EU dumb ideas. So even outside EU, we in the UK not only did not repeal the utterly imbecilic laws we inherited. No - we added even more stupid laws. Consequence being people are put in jail for writing stuff on the Internet. I hope someo…

The UK was known for bureaucracy even before they joined the EU. The idea that the red tape would vanish was always silly.

Re: Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

GardenLetter27 wrote: post #49
radicalbyte wrote: post #35

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There has been a change in the community here over the last decade, we've lost a lot of the hacker spirit and have a larger proportion of "chancers", people who are only in tech to "get rich quick". The legacy of ZIRP combined with The Social Network marketing.

Hackers should know the government is never on your side.

> Hackers should know the government is never on your side

Never is naive. Hackers should understand governments are complex, dynamic and occasionally chaotic systems. Those systems can be influenced and sometimes controlled by various means. And those levers are generally available to anyone with a modicum of intelligence and motivation.

Re: Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

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Post by rebolek »

surgical_fire wrote: post #26
bitpush wrote: post #16

Incredible to see the 180 both from EU and also from the HN sentiment. HN was cheering on as EU went after Big Tech companies, especially Meta. Meta is no perfect company, but the amount of 'please stick it to them' was strong (I reckon that is still a bridge too far for a lot of folks here). Even extreme proponents of big tech villanery in the US (Lina Khan's FTC) is also facing losses (They just lost their monument…

I live in EU. I am totally in support to force Meta down through government's big stick. While they are at it, I hope they do it to the other big techs too. Being a "hacker type" (whatever that means) does not equate to being complacent to these companies abusing their economic power.

I wonder what kind of people downvote you. They must have interesting priorities.
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