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by methodover 8y ago
Maybe I want to remember your name because, let's say, I want to pray for all my customers every Sunday. Or perhaps I want to try and memorize all my customer's names so I can use your name when I see you come in my shop. Or perha
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by methodover 8y ago
The American interpretation of “free speech” is much more broad than in the EU. Here, laws banning hate speech or flag burning or corporate campaign donations are unconstitutional for example. Libel lawsuits are much harder to pull off here
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Okay, I think I finally understand your argument. You’re saying that Recital 43’s citation of “performance of a contract” refers to merely the performance of the provider — the good or service handed off by the provider to the customer. (
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by methodover 8y ago
> Specifically, they're allowed to consent to give you that data, but that's not allowed to be a condition for the use of the service. You seem to be trying to say that Recital 43 rules out certain types of items as being part
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by methodover 8y ago
Thank you for the citation; this is an interesting and useful discussion. The contract that Facebook has with its users is not merely to serve as their social media platform. The contract includes personalized advertising. Facebook, in th
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by methodover 8y ago
Recital 43 is a fair objection -- I should rephrase what I said in light of it. I should have said: > "The GDPR requires many things, but there's nothing in there that says you can't reject the customer if they don't
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by methodover 8y ago
I see no reading of the GDPR that would lead you to that conclusion... The GDPR requires many things, but there's nothing in there that says you can't reject the customer if they don't opt-in to the things you want them to op
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by methodover 8y ago
They don't, and this argument by Max Schrems is ridiculous. There is no provision in the GDPR that says if you fund your site with ads, you now have to provide an ad-free version.
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> Couple looking for 2-bedroom in neighbourhood. Budget: $1250. God I need to move out of the bay area. I pay $1000 more than that for my one bedroom in Oakland. And it's not even in a great area... And it's not even that nice
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Science. Technological development. Research. Engineering. Writing. Language. Cooperation. Democracy. Diplomacy. Love. Ethics. Philosophy. Farming. Industrialization. Markets. Shipbuilding. Electronics. Masonry. Metallurgy. Flight. Medicine
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by methodover 8y ago
I don't know what you're trying to say. That violence has been used as a solution to problems? Sure. It has. That violence has, rarely, in some cases, been a sufficient answer for a problem? Sure. You cited a few. But that's
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by methodover 8y ago
> violence has solved more problems in human history than any other solution That is the most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever read.
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Because when fatal exceptions happen you want to know what the request was. It helps debug what went wrong.
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by methodover 8y ago
Wow, that is a tragic, terrifying story. I hope the mother can find some peace. It's good work she's doing. One thing not discussed yet: Could cars could be smarter? I wonder how hard it would be for them to detect the presence of
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by methodover 8y ago
Do you think that they should make no attempt to rank content at all in the news feed? That is, the feed becomes just a dumb list of posts from friends ordered by creation date, descending? Would that satisfy your concern?
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by methodover 8y ago
For any ad on Facebook, you can click on it and see why you're seeing it. They are not listening into your conversations. You can review your ad preferences, including what information is used for FB's ad targeting, here: https:&
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What, specifically, is Facebook doing wrong today? How could they improve?
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Facebook's Privacy Policy, Terms, and Principles are actually written in very clear, plain language. I've read them. They're easy to understand. I was frustrated by Senator Graham's remarks because he absolutely could un
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by methodover 8y ago
That is unreasonable conspiratorial thinking. Please don't believe it.
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by methodover 8y ago
Oh please. The price of free -- being shown ads -- is not too high. It's free. We need good advertising systems. Businesses need to be able to pitch new customers. We need to clean up some issues wrt privacy of course. But well-targete
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by methodover 8y ago
This is a fantastic article. Contagion is a really great term. I've seen my poor abstractions be replicated by others on my team, to my horror -- "don't they see why I did that in this particular case, and not in this other c
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by methodover 8y ago
Advertising is the best way to pay for the servers, lawyers, developers, office space, and everything else FB needs, while keeping the cost for users low. I believe they are investigating options for letting you pay for FB to turn off adver
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by methodover 8y ago
> selling it to developers FB doesn't sell access to their API. Many other businesses sell access to their API. FB doesn't. > Also to say that Cambridge Analytica abused the system sidesteps the issue of whether it was in Fa
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by methodover 8y ago
There is no source, because it's bullshit. FB has never sold access to their API. Access to the friend's data permission, like all other permissions, was free.
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by methodover 8y ago
> There are so many other ways to "influence" people's opinions by distorting what they see on their news feed, front page Google results, etc. ... and Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter, etc. When I'm discussing politics w
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by methodover 8y ago
Not true. They actually announced the end of the friend's data permission BEFORE the C.A. scandal broke in 2015. (Namely, they announced it in 2014.) https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-do
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He means that both China and the EU (with the GDPR) infringe on freedom of speech.
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They are.
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It's not your fault that you missed the reporting on it, but FB actually DID respond in 2015. They closed the friends-posts permission way back in 2015. They had plans to do so even before the story broke. What C.A. did hasn't bee
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by methodover 8y ago
I accept it. Facebook is probably one of the better companies out there when it comes to security. They haven't had a true breach; the scandals so far have been small, mostly because the mores of society have shifted before FB can roll

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