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by srrr 3y ago
The concern is about the Digital Markets Act and not the GDPR. To quote https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-05/meta-won-... : A number of companies, including Meta, have self-designated themselves
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by srrr 4y ago
While I support almost everything you said there is a national standards body and some standards. See: 1) https://www.fitko.de/ 2) https://www.xoev.de/ 3) https://www.xrepository.de/
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by srrr 4y ago
I think the term gatekeeper makes more sense if applied to companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft & Co, with their search engines, maps, app stores, operating systems, browsers ... all these are gateways to "the digital market&quo
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by srrr 4y ago
The European Union Digital Markets Act, coming into effect in May 2023, explicitly forbids such behavior. (If twitter is classified as a "gatekeeper".) https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/prioriti
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by srrr 4y ago
Our world in data has a nice graph showing some countries that where able to decouple CO2 emission from GDP growth showing that this is indeed possible: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit... A
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by srrr 4y ago
SBC and aptX have the same quality (at the same bit rate). You are most likely talking about SBC XQ and aptX HD: http://soundexpert.org/articles/-/blogs/audio-quality-of-sbc... & https://habr.c
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by srrr 4y ago
I don't find the argument "richer countries can emit more CO2" to be helpful. The richer the country the more money is available to act responsible. Even in your GDP adjusted data France is 37% lower than Germany (0.14/0
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by srrr 4y ago
Some data: Per capita CO2 emissions in France are half than in Germany: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/germany?country=DEU~F... (ps: I am an opponent of nuclear energy. But facts are facts.)
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by srrr 4y ago
A German court can not, in fact, serve a court order to Volkswagen America. (Technically it can, but the order is not enforceable.) A German court is also forbidden to force Volkswagen AG to reach into Volkswagen America because these are s
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by srrr 4y ago
Searching for "12.1 Regions. Customer can specify the location(s) where Customer Data will be processed within the" (as mentioned in the verdict) yields AWS as the problematic sub-processor for company A: https://d1.aws
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Usage of EU subsidiaries of US cloud providers deemed unlawful by German court(gdprhub.eu)
92 points by srrr 4y ago|210 comments
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by srrr 4y ago
summary (English): https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=VK_Baden-W%C3%BCrttemburg... news article (German): https://www.golem.de/news/vergabekammer-clouddienste-von-us-... primary source (German): https
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by srrr 4y ago
No, opening a connection and exchanging IPs falls under "technically necessary" processing of personal data. But from a legal point of view we, as a European company, are forbidden to use any US infrastructure provider. We can&#x2
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by srrr 4y ago
To add: The reason why US companies can't be GDPR complaint is because of Article 5 and the conflict with the Cloud Act: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL ... (paragraph f)
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by srrr 4y ago
From what I understand the legal exception to process personal data without consent is written down in Article 6 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... (paragraph b) "(1) Pr
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by srrr 4y ago
IP addresses (for connection setup) are personal data: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo... You can process IP addresses without consent only if it is technically necessary: h
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by srrr 4y ago
That is not true. IP addresses are explicitly stated as personal data. That they are a technical requirement for a connection only has repercussions on how you are allowed to store and process this data and the consent you need to get from
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by srrr 4y ago
Yes, that might be a real difference. (But I, personally, find sugar very addictive. YMMV) But what happens if we compare the health implications? Obesity, and sugar as one of many parts of this problem, might be more deadly than nicotine.
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by srrr 4y ago
The 5% (or rather 95%) comes from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/e-cigarettes-an-e...
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by srrr 4y ago
So does sugar. So what's exactly the argument? If we forbid everything that might be dangerous the world would look very different. Half our food would vanish. Cars get banned... To have a fair discussion I think we should compare to o
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by srrr 4y ago
15 years ago when I worked in the music streaming space we also had to push users to playlists instead of albums. The reason, in Germany at least, was that a playlist only payed 1/10 the royalties to the GEMA [1] than an album playthro
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by srrr 4y ago
While thinking about it I found an interesting fact: If they don't produce the data that lead to the account ban because they they "don't have it", they don't actually have proof of fraud anymore. If they don't
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by srrr 4y ago
I don't think so. I have not worked on many fraud detection systems but in all cases there was a very detailed record in the logs of what happened and how the decision came to be. In addition, if there was a human review additional dat
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by srrr 4y ago
In this case cloudflare has produced a legal effect with putting the domain into pending delete because this is an ownership transfer back to the registrar (of a property they don't even own, so stupid...). For me deleting my domain wo
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by srrr 4y ago
If you live in the EU the article 15 of the GDPR grants you the right to ask about the details. Often companies reply that they don't need to answer because of ¨security¨ but this is not true. You can in detail ask about ALL personal d
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by srrr 6y ago
On my system spatialite is 10% the speed with the Germany extract compared to PostgreSQL. Bigger extracts don't work properly. But loading data directly from a osm.pbf or loading data via the QGis QuickOSM plugin into a spatialite file
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by srrr 6y ago
I do a cycle map with my own style and these are my steps and tools: 1) Download a region from geofabrik. 2) Extract, transform and load the data into pgsql with osm2pgsql. I use the osm2pgsql flex mode. QGis can load osm extracts direcly,
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by srrr 6y ago
Less companies are focusing on user level tracking because one single user is not a meaningful statistical group. Companies focusing on user level tracking today provide a different set of tools one might be used to and that can of course b
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by srrr 6y ago
There are many packages listed at https://github.com/onurakpolat/awesome-analytics . Heap is an example of macro+micro+web+app.
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by srrr 6y ago
As long as your measurement is a random sample everything is okay. Even if it is not, it is much more information than you had before. You just need to keep it in mind when evaluating conclusions. We are not talking about drug tails here an

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