Indeed. Not only are these slaps on the wrist accounted for in initial estimations of the cost of doing business, but then they're just written off and ironically inconsequential. There needs to be real consequences.
If changing the battery is a one hour cheap deal, a lot more people may do it.
And I am very happy about those EU initiatives: this way I know what sites are tracking me and how much. This tells me which sites values annoying me with their banner so they can sell my data.
Have you noticed there is no banner on Hacker news despite the fact that:
- they serve in Europe
- they use cookies
That's because it's not about cookies, and the banner is only for privacy abusers.
Most people don't have a $1000 iphone, which is even more problematic, because if you have a cheaper $3-400 phone, that $99 replacement would be very expensive.
Exactly this! I keep seeing this nonsense that a $70/99 store replacement battery is a great cheap deal.
Yeap, only compared to a brand new phone. When you have a cheap iPhone from 5 years ago and you compare the price of a battery replacement to the actual price of your phone it quickly become obnoxiously expensive.
In the US having a battery replaced at a shop is cheap and you can probably find a place that will do it in less than an hour. There are a few nationwide chains of third-parties that do it, plus numerous independent local repair places.
As far as HN goes it is not clear whether or not they are covered by GDPR. Yes, the site is viewable in Europe and people there can make accounts. But that's not sufficient.
GDPR asserts extraterritorial jurisdiction when you are either (1) offering goods and services in the Union or (2) monitoring the behavior of data subjects in the Union that takes place in the Union.
One of the recitals clarifies that the mere availability of a site to Europeans does not necessarily mean it is offering goods and services in the Union. The site has to envisage serving people in the Union.
The main problem is probably that you will not find a “regular Engineer” knowing this unless they’ve had to deal with scaling issues on a DB (e.g. high IOPS etc).
The knowledge is definitely out there, but almost all articles will be reaching for UUIDs, so this is understandably what most people end up with :/
Yes, but the problem here is not that, it's the arguments used to build the case.
They have not been any evidence of criminal activities by those people. So far, all what they have against them is "they are protective about their privacy".
That's a terrible reason to arrest and maintain people in jail.
It's grounds for having your citizenship revoked unless it will render you stateless. People suspected of being on the way to Syria would get their passports confiscated.
Nine EU countries made similar rules, though I don't know how many still have it in effect. Any citizen/resident of Denmark is still prohibited from going to the conflict zones of Syria and Iraq.
True, but they are very serious and diligent in their actions.
They have been nothing but rational and respectful in everything they have done so far.
You can see it in the writing of the article, it's methodical, logical, and rely strongly on facts through quoting documents.
This have been consistent for years, something I give them a lot of credits for.
Besides, no matter the political orientation of the govt, I think it's safe to say no group at the top was not worth of opposition during the last decades. So it's nice to have movements like La Quadrature that keep them in check.
No, their bias is grotesque. They make it sound like the DGSI bothered monitoring some dudes because they are using uBlock origins, lmfao.
For the US guys here, the equivalent would be the FBI tracking down a few guys back from Afghanistan, monitoring who they talk to, see that they are curious about how to make bombs, how to encrypt your communications, etc, and write an article saying "oh look, the FBI thinkgs that buying sugar at the supermarket is suspicious", because among 1000 other evidence, the FBI at some point noted that "individual bought ingredients to a make a bomb and bought 25kg of sugar".
Part of the snowden documents revealed that anyone who had ever visited the Tor web site, not even downloading the client, was on one of the NSAs "lists"
It’s not horrible, but every time I see his name on a publication, I know what the primary subtext is going to be.
It will definitely be worth it if he’s the first scientist to establish deeply convincing evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization, but for now he seems like he’s mostly hat and short on cattle.
When you pretend you have the legitimacy to run something as big as JP Morgan then you should not be allowed to screw up that much.
You earn that much money, you should demonstrate equal level of competency.
They should get jail time either way.