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by arien 5y ago
Who would back up their phone to the cloud if they were involved in illegal activities? This is going to bite more innocent people through false positives than criminals who already know how to get away with these things.
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by arien 6y ago
Might have, judging from this story.
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by arien 7y ago
It didn't have to be binding, just advisory or symbolic with no action to be taken. It might have prevented most of the current situation if the result had been to remain (which would have been most likely, back then, now I'm no
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by arien 7y ago
What about the Instagram and WhatsApp apps? Do they behave the same way?
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by arien 7y ago
The explicit consent request is what they can do. It should have been there from the start, but better late than never.
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by arien 7y ago
Anything that falls in that 'personal data' segment above that belongs to me has to be obtained with my prior, explicit consent. And these bits of data with my name or other details in them must be included if I send Google a &quo
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by arien 7y ago
But in this particular case, it's the company doing the recordings, not the owner of the device, so it's a slightly different situation, in my opinion. That said... The owner could be liable if for example it were necessary to exp
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by arien 7y ago
In terms of GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ > ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be
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by arien 7y ago
There are some rules concerning security cameras as well. I recently found out that private CCTV (at least in the UK) can't record public areas (e.g only your porch). Someone got sued over this recently. There have been some stories in
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by arien 7y ago
Not in the case of the device being someone else's. I don't have any Google or Amazon smart listeners, so I never accepted them. Yet if my voice is in any of these recordings, well...
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by arien 7y ago
Doesn't mean you can use live data for tests. Should be opt-out by default, with the chance to opt-in if you wish to collaborate with your data.
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by arien 7y ago
And not to be anywhere near anyone else's listening devices. Isn't there a law in some US states that there needs to be consent before recording someone? How does this fit in and who would be held responsible, the owner of the lis
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by arien 7y ago
I'm guessing it's some kind of A/B testing done by Amazon. Do people trust in the Amazon brand, or do they rather buy from unknown brands that offer cheap but decent quality (compared to the cheap and poor quality counterpart
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by arien 7y ago
Yeah, I've seen those, but they are slightly different and have been available for a few years already (I believe before 2014, the date of this project, but I could be wrong). I'm glad to see on the other reply that the plan hasn&
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by arien 7y ago
I only started reading this one yesterday. I honestly know nothing of this book other than everybody always mentions it (along with 1984, Animal Farm and Farenheit 451). The first few pages made me raise a few eyebrows already, looking forw
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by arien 7y ago
This reminds me of 'The Gods Themselves', by Asimov. Doesn't talk about a mirror universe per se, but a parallel one. It's one of my favourite Asimov stories outside the Foundation/Robots series.
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by arien 7y ago
Slightly off-topic, but couldn't help but notice on the Projects list a really cool version of the London tube. Unfortunately it seems it's from 2014 (there's even some quote from Boris as Mayor), so probably scrapped by now?
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by arien 7y ago
I've been on a fair amount of sleeper trains and the Caledonian has been the most comfortable so far. For the opposite, the most uncomfortable one to sleep in was the Hong Kong to Shanghai one. I paid extra for the Deluxe option, can&#
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by arien 7y ago
I did recently Chicago to Las Vegas with the Southwest Chief and, while it's not as shiny, it was still a lovely train (the cabins, the restaurant and the fantastic viewing lounge), with great service and quite comfy. It was a very enj
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by arien 7y ago
You can choose to share your email with each developer or not, so if you feel particularly attached to a service you can disable the email obfuscation. Or sign up withouth Apple ID if you know beforehand.
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by arien 7y ago
Hm... The Amazon Prime app doesn't allow purchases in the app, you've got to purchase through Amazon and then you can watch them just fine.
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by arien 7y ago
Sometimes you have to trade up some part of the experience to be able to enjoy it. I travel by cruise (and trains) a lot, but I do mostly on small ships and off season. It's cheaper and I get to avoid the masses. It's very enjoyab
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by arien 7y ago
Thanks for the explanation :)
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by arien 7y ago
What about smallpox? Wasn't it eradicated completely in the 80s?
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by arien 7y ago
But you use the service, just not 24/7 or to the maximum capacity. And you might subscribe because it gives you other benefits. E.g. I have an Office 365 subscription. I haven't used Office in forever, but it comes with 5Tb of One
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by arien 7y ago
You pay a monthly fee, so it doesn't really matter to them how much do you use the services during this month. In fact, the less you use them, the more profitable it is for them.
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by arien 7y ago
From the article: > “When we found out about these guideline violations, we communicated these violations to the app developers, giving them 30 days to submit an updated app to avoid availability interruption in the App Store,” a spokesp
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by arien 7y ago
Sounds are the easiest to reproduce for me, perhaps even more so than images. But I have experienced other things as well. Since I was a kid I play this game when I'm bored... let's call it "visualising". But not for ima
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by arien 7y ago
Perhaps this whole visualisation process is related to hallucinations. Do people with aphantasia ever experience these?
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by arien 8y ago
Maintenance of old infrastructure in large projects is difficult and budget for this purpose is hard to justify, while building new things gets harder due to (self imposed) new regulations and higher costs (outsourcing might be cheaper, but

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