Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regulator in France

Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by dfxm12 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:23AM (#33639237)

But Windows misrepresents that the application is not running, when it is running in the background with access to the mic. Is this not a poor default? The justification here is that Discord behaves differently from "the vast majority of applications". First, I'm not sure if that's true. Second, another justification brought up is that Discord doesn't show the user that their mic is still hot, Windows seems just as culpable for not "protecting by default".

For example, on my Android phone, whenever the mic/camera is in use, even if the app is in the background, the OS displays a green dot in the corner of the screen and when I poke it, it tells me what is using the mic/camera. This is a good default.

I don't think Windows is culpable instead of Discord, but I do think that more protection should be built into Windows, and based on this decision, Windows could get dinged for this as much as Discord.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by ChoGGi on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:33AM (#33639379)

I would say it shows an icon on the system tray, but I think recent versions of Windows like to hide unused icons for whatever reason.

In my experience; quite a few programs will minimize to system tray when pressing x.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by Pyramus on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:51AM (#33639618)

The issue highlighted in the article is no other VoiP/chat program will continue to record audio in the background. Which you can absolutely do, just don't make it the default behaviour. Valid point in my view.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by lightedman on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:37AM (#33640391)

"The issue highlighted in the article is no other VoiP/chat program will continue to record audio in the background. "

Just tested in a call with Skype. Closing the windows still has the program running, recording, and the call is still active.

Ditto Camfrog.

Ditto Paltalk.

That's because most actual programs have a 'minimize to tray on closing' option enabled by default on install.

It's been like this since 1998 or so. I've been undoing that option for at least 20 years, because when I click X I expect it to GTFO.

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