lonelystrandedalien

13889 pts · May 22, 2013


and quickly succumb to cancer...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

in severe cases, that would mean to wear something like a spacesuit. traces like dirty hands on a door handle can be enough...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

as sn extraterrestrial, please keep going!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

the chance is a bonus ... as with lots of other activities

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

that‘s NOT introversion, that‘s depression or something, but decidedly not healthy...

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I'm awesome for sure, but I'm not even human, so I may not actually count.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

how does this denigrate anyone? i think this merely extends the list by one actor.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

i guess that wouldn't help you a bit outside of rural/suburban USA

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hi, I'm an alien

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

it's not like they'll have to delete everyone's data right away. they get to keep a LOT (for now) and they get to collect a lot still.

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regulations change for everyone, investors know that. as long as they stay biggest in that game (and they will, for now), they should be ok

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

industries started like this and are now tightly regulated, why should this be the exception?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

of course they have, and of course they'll fight, and it will be seen how that goes. i don't get this pessimist view of things, other

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

other industries started like this and are now tightly regulated. the same will happen with this one, certainly, but not with that one law.

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data in this legislation is defined very broadly, anonymization will have to be quite strong. will it matter in practice? will be seen.

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and this seems like a move that may very well give me quite a bit more. data brokers will fall under the very same legislature, and personal

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the european societies want that balance to lie. i'm actually fine with /some/ targeting and /some/ analysis, but i'd like control over that

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and that will stay. but the balance is shifting towards private quite a bit now, and that is a great first step in figuring out where

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current legislation won't solve all problems, once and for all, how could it? there's a conflict of interests between privacy and targeting

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besides, what data set are you talking about?

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take the risk with the few who opt out?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

not be having show up in ad recommendations or the like will be very very troublesome. they have such a huge base of active users, why

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the next such leak may be extremely expensive. their law people are aware of that. any large-ish demonstration that data points they should

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I know about them, great initiative, I'm glad there's such things around.

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but all those issues can be solved, and data that can't ever show up anywhere again, even if still in some system, is less worrisome to me

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i know. most big data systems are like that, take Kafka for instance... a nightmare in that regard.

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data that is completely offline is a lot less of a worry to me than live data that can leak or easily sold or be exposed otherwise

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always with laws. but it's a looot better than nothing.

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they might still try to sneak away a few petabytes, but that would be risky and not exactly easy to hide. no 100% guarantee though, as

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they have to jump through a lot of hoops to do that, they have to demonstrate how they handle data if requested, document all processes ...

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