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Re:Indian government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill on Thursday August 04, 2022 @03:22PM (#32347163)
India doesn't have enough purchasing power to convince big tech companies (Google, Facebook, etc.) to store the data of Indian residents in India. Also, there are not many local tech monoliths with consumer apps to fall back on (like China had).

Since India depends heavily on apps & services by big tech, I doubt such requirements like GDPR has would be enforced. Although the right to ask a website to delete all information about one and so on are quite good and could work.

Re:Google Maps launches Street View in India on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @02:34PM (#32254579)
Apple Maps is honestly no where close to Google Maps. Especially in dense Indian cities with multiple roads to reach a place, some roads are not even there on Apple Maps. It also (like OSM) lacks in contact details of businesses, open/close time, etc. which are a real value add for Google Maps.

Hopefully some real competitor emerges.

I think Google can probably not fix it. Users will have to be manually reporting as spam. These websites on seeing traffic from Google's crawler bots show a perfectly legit and highly SEO optimized website, but for anything else show other spam. If Google starts indexing from random IP ranges, most websites would probably block indexing from “unofficial IPs” or some companies (esp in EU) would file some lawsuit against Google. The reason being that some pay-walled news article websites won't be indexed properly, as the “unofficial IP-ed” Googlebot will not get the paywalled content.

If a website lies to Google itself, I believe the only way to solve it is by reporting the search result as spam or Google contracts people to somehow visit all billions of web pages (again the same problem – from different IP ranges) to verify it as a legit page.

I would like to know how Google currently handles it and probably how it could be improved

Your emails are not scanned for building an advertising profile. This rumour comes up quite often, Google has thankfully stopped doing it for a long time now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html

Re:DALL·E now available in beta on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:04PM (#32168789)
I have tried playing around with the beta access to make it generate NFT art with different prompts, but in vail.

I think it has not been trained on NFT art (crypto punks and so on).

Re:DNS-over-HTTP/3 in Android on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:24PM (#32168073)
You could already use nextdns.io for ad blocking on android phones via DNS over TLS.
Writing under a pseudo-name probably helps a lot of people.
Then why did China ask for the Hambantota port[1]. It is a clear strategic and economic policy. Not to deny other countries haven't done that in the past; but it is a clear way of gaining control - especially the taking control over infrastructure part.

Same is the case with Africa, and many projects of which do not benefit the citizens of those countries in any way too. [2]

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lank... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJSD8XV3qzE

Re:Met Police UK Live Facial Recognition on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:14PM (#32021834)
Welcome to 1984
And unfortunately you are getting downvoted :(
Razorpay did receive a Section 91 order according to their tweet: https://twitter.com/Razorpay/status/1544313411621646338
I am really suspecting a lot of these comments from throwaway and new accounts.

Are they bots, paid chineese actors, or something else is to think about.

replit.com

glitch.com

It is perfectly working for me. Probably something to do with ISP?

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