The_Magistrate
Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Belgian court
on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:13PM (#16394384)
GDPR isn't enforceable in jurisdictions that don't have corresponding local laws. Take Privacy Shield in the US - this is an agreement betwee the US government and the EU stating the FTC and Chamber of Commerce will act as the supervisory authorities for GDPR enforcement against companies registered in the US.
You're right, the fundamental functioning of Google, Facebook, et al. won't change. They will update their privacy policies, and give users access to view, update or delete all of their information more easily. The uses of that information will be disclosed and there will be consequences for misuse or failure to protect that information. GDPR is setting expectations for the protection of data previously where it was an anything-goes or minimum-effort policy.
I can see how those opposed to government regulation would hate GDPR, but no other industry standard on data privacy has gained traction and data breaches are happening more frequently at the expense of real people.
Re:Stupid security things
on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:14AM (#14220026)
Thanks, I needed this laugh (and cry) on a Friday.
Re:US Tax Filings are down 5% as of April 15, 2017
on Friday April 21, 2017 @02:45PM (#14168190)
Could the 5% drop be accounted for considering the numbers are for April 14th 2017 and not after the filing deadline of April 18th 2017? Seems like many people would file and/or postmark their returns Monday or Tuesday.
Re:United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Failure
on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:44PM (#14100568)
Force majeure doesn't apply in this circumstance because it requires an external force or event that is unforeseeable. In this case, United didn't plan correctly for the transport of its 4 employees, something well within its capability to predict.
Re:New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts
on Thursday January 26, 2017 @12:34AM (#13489012)
These are just suits meant for in-vehicle use and not meant for EVAs, correct?
Re:Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI accused of spying on defense in f...
on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:50PM (#11855741)
"Since the indictment, Imaging Universe has charged Schapiro $8,200 to produce nine sets of discovery documents to his defense team. The motion identifies those records to include a dozen CDs containing approximately 1,140 PDF files, many with multiple pages."
It appears that the defense was required to be on-premise to review the documents and was charged a fee by Imaging Universe to take copies with them. Requesting copies of all records shouldn't be necessary to obfuscate the defense's real documentation needs.
Re:Software security suffers as startups lose access to Google’s virus...
on Monday May 09, 2016 @10:34AM (#11660109)
SentinalOne probably approached VirusTotal with specific requirements about how they wanted to contribute back, and VirusTotal said 'you can contribute the same way everyone else does.' The rest is marketing BS.
Re:Follow the money: Apple vs. the FBI
on Monday March 28, 2016 @10:36AM (#11374477)
Currently, yes. The article is positing that once Apple has the infrastructure in place for end-to-end transactions, removing the VISA/MC puzzle piece will be easy. Ultimately, you'd put money into an Apple account and spent it on your iPhone.
Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
on Thursday March 24, 2016 @05:57PM (#11356808)
If this is true, then Privacy.com doesn't resolve this obligation. The temporary card number won't be chargeable by the merchant, but you'd still be on the hook for the renewed (and unpaid) service.
Re:Lessons Learned from a Year of Elasticsearch in Production
on Monday March 14, 2016 @08:40AM (#11282469)
It's actually fairly difficult. There are so many different possible combinations of incoming data quality, quantity, system and disk configuration, performance and internal ES settings. Only an administrator would be familiar enough with the environment to monitor and tweak the configuration to make it the most performant.
There are a few hosted elasticsearch services available (Elastic Cloud, AWS ES, Qbox, etc) which would likely be a better option for the team that needed a hands-off elasticsearch cluster.
Re:Improving WordPress Password Security
on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @02:17PM (#11205278)
Great article! I had no idea that Wordpress still deployed on such outdated versions of PHP.
I moved away from Wordpress years ago, but it's always great to see the community pushing to make everything more secure.
Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator
on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @04:46PM (#10890652)
Taller buildings with complex and highly trafficked elevators still do this only using electronics. Employees swipe their badges at a podium which reads what floor they work on and indicates which elevator they should proceed to. The system can intelligently schedule the elevator for that person to use knowing where their destination is.
Re:CSS Social Buttons
on Friday March 09, 2012 @02:33PM (#3685573)
There are instructions on how to create your own icons from the standard set available here: http://icondock.com/free/mono-social-icons
Took me about 5 mins to upload the github icon and edit the CSS file.