Dutch DPA fines Uber 290M euro because of transfers of drivers' data to the US

Re:Dutch DPA fines Uber 290M euro because of transfers of dr... by snowpid on Monday August 26, 2024 @10:12AM (#41357302)

Im curios: The author claims to be a EU - citizen, yet has an English name, has lived his whole life in the US and his thinking is deeply American (this made me chuckle: "You can view this almost like a class-action lawsuit, where some compensation is sought for harm done to a large group of people. But for a class-action lawsuit to be legitimate, it must reward the consumers!")

So where is he from? Which country?

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Re:Dutch DPA fines Uber 290M euro because of transfers of dr... by johnloeber on Monday August 26, 2024 @10:16AM (#41357346)

Where does it say that I lived in the US my whole life? You're getting ahead of yourself.

From another blog post:

> I grew up in Europe (mostly Germany, Denmark, Switzerland). I had never even set foot outside the continent until I was 18, when I moved to the United States. I have lived here for 12 years now, with most of that in San Francisco.

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Re:Dutch DPA fines Uber 290M euro because of transfers of dr... by snowpid on Monday August 26, 2024 @10:18AM (#41357365)

Dankeschön für die Antwort!

You might understand that I read only Bio and LinkedIn, not your whole blog. Also again very very American thinking. Im just amused.

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Re:Dutch DPA fines Uber 290M euro because of transfers of dr... by jonathan_landy on Monday August 26, 2024 @10:36AM (#41357562)

And which kind of thinking led you to assert he lived in us his whole life on the basis of what little you read?

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Re:Dutch DPA fines Uber 290M euro because of transfers of dr... by snowpid on Monday August 26, 2024 @10:45AM (#41357663)

Class suite actions as only moral option to protect consumers (which is not common in Germany), Citing Kissinger as a god like authority in intra - countries relationships, lack of knowledge in pro - market / competition regulation (very strong in Germany, EU [for different reasons]),

I regularly read German and Swiss newspapers. The arguments are very different (and in many cases more nuanced)

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Re:Dutch DPA fines Uber 290M euro because of transfers of dr... by johnloeber on Monday August 26, 2024 @11:06AM (#41357862)

I never cited Kissinger as a "god like authority", and to insinuate that I did is offensive.

Furthermore, you made an earlier false statement about bias -- claiming I had lived in the US all my life -- and backing it up claiming that you had read my LinkedIn. My LinkedIn features my European high school. You're either lying or lazy; you can tell me which.

Making bombastic and trivially false statements doesn't help your arguments. Good luck with your "nuance".

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