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Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

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Re: Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

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Post by weavie »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #500
gambiting wrote: post #471

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tbf, well implemented digital ID would be much preferable to the idiotic situation that we're in now. The emphasis on well implemented.

I still don't understand how someone is supposed to benefit from such a thing. If I want to use some service, I'll sign up for an account with it. The only thing a centralized ID is going to do is let the service correlate me with a different account on a different service, which is exactly the thing that I don't want. How is someone supposed to benefit from a thing whose only function is to reduce the friction again…

A well implemented system would somehow allow you to use your ID to prove you have the attributes a service needs (being over 18, able to drive, no criminal records, not a communist or whatever it is they need) without providing any further information that would allow multiple services to correlate ID's against eachother.

Re: Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

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Post by p0w3n3d »

oldjim798 wrote: post #166
thw_9a83c wrote: post #44

Following this logic, I suppose that, in the future, cars that cannot automatically detect the presence of a child in a wheelchair and prevent the engine from starting will be banned.

>Following this logic, I suppose that, in the future, cars that cannot automatically detect the presence of a child in a wheelchair and prevent the engine from starting will be banned. You said this like it is a bad thing, which is baffling? Obviously cars should do this. One of the best things about adding self-driving features is we can add features like this (and speed governors) to make cars a lot safer for every…

why overregulation is baffling to you?

Re: Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

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Post by Angostura »

BatteryMountain wrote: post #469
zmmmmm wrote: post #267

There's an opportunity for a service like CloudFlare here give people a simple toggle that manages geoblocks on legal liability factors. It's way too much for every organisation to individually track every country's laws day by day in case just by being accessible there you incur a liability. And it sounds like the UK would have just self-selected out of the list of "safe" countries. If something like this was in wid…

Or, just ban children from the internet, same as gun ownership for 12yo's. Fine/imprison parents. This is a parenting problem, not a technical/business problem. Remove the supply of children and things will get better. A business cannot make laws or override laws with ToS and invent their own moral compasses - rather it is the sole responsibility of the parent on what their child gets exposed to (whether politics, po…

> Or, just ban children from the internet, same as gun ownership for 12yo's. Fine/imprison parents.

It's an interesting idea. I presume that the there would be similar laws to selling guns. So there would need to be the national ID card and checks when selling any internet-enabled device. TVs, phones, cameras etc.

I as, a parent would probably need a phone safe, into which I could place my phone when I wasn't using it (though I suppose conceal-carry would be permissible). I;d probably want to have biometric locks on my TV, Chromecast etc etc and the children wouldn't be able to use the TV unsupervised unless all smart functions were locked down.

Doesn't sound particularly cool.

Re: Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

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Post by scott_w »

asimpleusecase wrote: post #429
scott_w wrote: post #423

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Evidence?

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-04-28/debates/2E7... Rather than jump into the raging press coverage or as some see it raging press coverup - here is a link to debate in UK Parliament that indicates there is an issue.

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Re: Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

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Post by lillecarl »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #530
piker wrote: post #513

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It looks from another chart like 21% of revenue is recurring, so $10 million annually for Europe. Convert that to GBP and you get about £7.5 million. Figure that the UK accounts for about 15% of the European economy and assume it contributes to Wikipedia at about an equal share. That's about £1.125 million in estimated annual recurring contributions from the UK. You said 10-100/mo, so let's assume £55/mo or £660/year…

I assumed Britain would not be Europe but “other”

Europe isn't EU, EU isn't Europe.

Re: Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

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Post by varispeed »

teamonkey wrote: post #278
varispeed wrote: post #213

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archive.org is also blocked in the UK. I cannot access it without VPN.

I can, it’s not blocked.

It is blocked by many ISPs because it contains adult content.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/internet-archive-...

Re: Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

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Post by gortok »

gambiting wrote: post #517
reorder9695 wrote: post #490

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That would require trusting a government such as the British one to implement it well. That's far too big an ask for them, so the current situation is preferable.

Tbf, the team behind .gov websites has been exceptional and I think that part of the digitization of government services has been done really well. So I think it's definitely possible - the question is will the government do that, or will they pay someone few billion quid for an off the shelf solution from a company owned by someone's uncle/brother/cousin that will be a flaming mess.

It’s not the technical expertise that is the concern.

It’s what the UK government has shown time and again when they ask for more data: they use it for previously denied-aims to expand their surveillance state.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mass_surveillance...

Re: Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

p0w3n3d wrote: post #533
gethly wrote: post #453

In short, governments and internet do no mix. Whenever they do, it ends in a disaster for the people.

by the definition inter-net is the net between (something). These laws create intra-nets, which are ruled by different laws

> by the definition inter-net is the net between (something)

Internet was originally defined as the "network of networks", i.e. the net between local nets.

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