Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by freedomben on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:38PM
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I tend to agree with what you've said here, but there's a lot of unnecessary snark in your comment.
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by jcims on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:22PM
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There is an epidemic of snark in the overall conversation about GDPR. I'm sure I have my biases and blind spots, but the majority seems to come from the same direction as the comment you are replying to.
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by freeone3000 on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:41PM
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It's not "their" information. It's information about them. I collected it and stored in my servers that I'm paying for, and that makes it my information. Your laws may say differently, but practicality wins here.
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by loup-vaillant on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:21PM
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Do your users know what information you collect, and what for? If they don't, you're being creepy. Here's the same thing taken to a logical extreme:
"I shoot this sex tape myself with my camera, climbed my tree on lawn, zoomed with my long focus lens, stored it in my computer. It's my data. If they don't like it, they should have pulled their curtain."
There must be a threshold somewhere. When does it stops being acceptable, and starts being creepy?
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by freeone3000 on Saturday May 26, 2018 @12:23AM
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Your procedure sounds like the work of a private investigator. Not everything creepy needs to be illegal.
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by loup-vaillant on Saturday May 26, 2018 @03:59AM
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I'm pretty sure in my country (France), only the police may peep through windows with optical instruments. The work of a private investigator you speak of may very well be illegal, assuming the investigator is not an on duty police officer.
Public places are one thing (he entered this building with that woman at this hour). Looking through private property is another.
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by orf on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:07PM
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Under Canadian Law (which you are subject to, according to your profile) and you're liable if you decide to snoop on a specific persons data, or misuse it in a way that they didn't intend. So, it doesn't seem to be completely your information.
> Your laws may say differently
Sure, Canadian laws in this area are very scattered and backwards. I wouldn't put that forward as a good thing though, or use it as a pretense to not bother protecting or managing your users PII.
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by pjc50 on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:56PM
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If you tape a song off the radio, that doesn't make it your song.
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by freeone3000 on Saturday May 26, 2018 @12:10AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act#Exemp... America is a very strange place, isn't it?
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by orf on Sunday May 27, 2018 @09:54AM
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But it's still not your song, is it.
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by lima on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:54PM
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Your bio says you're a Microsoft employee. Hopefully you're talking about a side project?
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by freeone3000 on Saturday May 26, 2018 @12:09AM
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My opinions are my own. The above was meant to refer to a philosophical stance, and not any particular instance of data collection.
EDIT: Not allowed to say what was previously put here.
Riiiight. You sound like the perfect person to be handing my personal information and I would trust you to take full care of it.
Not.