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  • Vanth@reddthat.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlTo Privacy Advocates!
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    12 days ago

    When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

    Are we assuming personal data includes anything uploaded to the cloud? Like the .svg files? Because that is likely not personal data, at least it’s not all personal data by default.

    Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual (data subject). Different pieces of information, which together can lead to the identification of a particular person, may also be considered personal data.

    Source: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-protection-explained_en

    So I would think what details are associated with one’s account, and what sort of encryption and control of the .SVG files plays a part.

    As for what you can do if you think your rights under GDPR haven’t been respected, you can boycott them or file a complaint or file a legal action.

    IMO, unless you could show your data specifically was mismanaged and exposed to someone who should not have had it, I would be skeptical of the success of any lawsuit. Obligatory, not a lawyer.



  • Idk why a ban is necessary. Just remove some of the protections so they can be held liable for things they should be held liable for.

    They’re currently not liable for third-party content (if they have reasonable moderation policies and respond in a timely manner to requests, yada yada). But if they promote it, they are no longer a passive hosting platform; they are actively promoting content so should be held proportionately liable for that content.


  • Fun story, my neighbor locked himself out of his house last night and knocked on my door to borrow a cell phone to call his wife. I trotted over with a Costco card, slipped it in the door, and had it open with 30 seconds of jiggling.

    Sometimes people need to chill and learn to prioritize their security efforts. There are compromises to be made, lines to draw and accept that sometimes where they are is “good enough”. No sense self-hosting stuff, losing contact with friends and family because they won’t install fb anywhere, while they leave windows and sliding doors open to the house.




  • So he wasn’t cancelled. Some people were critical of how he said some things. That’s the way people work.

    I could post “the best spaghetti sauce recipe” and I would get people telling me I’m an idiot and wrong about Italian culture and blah blah blah. That’s not cancellation. Any opinion, no matter how benign, gets crap on the internet.


  • Vanth@reddthat.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlWhy do you care about privacy?
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    4 months ago

    Those details are unnecessary for this conversation. Cops used Facebook private messages to build a case to prosecute an illegal abortion.

    They have established the process and the precedent, next time it will be a woman only 5 months pregnant. Or who has an ectopic pregnancy and is past six weeks. Or was raped. Or isn’t in a financial situation suitable for raising a child. Or simply doesn’t want a child. It doesn’t matter the details, cops have and will use private messages to prosecute women getting abortions.

    The arguments that “because of her one comment about wanting to wear jeans again means she was just a careless, shallow woman who didn’t want to take responsibility for her actions and got what she deserved” is a load of crap. Not saying you are doing that solely, but that is not a good argument for not caring about privacy.



  • Vanth@reddthat.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlWhy do you care about privacy?
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    4 months ago

    Law enforcement used Facebook private messages to investigate and prosecute a woman for an “illegal abortion”. This is not a hypothetical, this happened.

    I care about my privacy because I don’t want right-wing weirdos and perverts incarcerating me for controlling my own body.

    There are more reasons. This is just the one most recently in the news as a glaring red flag real-life example.



  • I work for a company that requires everything to have a privacy policy that meets some minimums. We’re technically not supposed to even use Google websearch because putting any question into it potentially sends company information into the world and out of our control. That one’s not really enforced, thank goodness.

    Without a privacy policy, I guess the calculator app could scrape the numbers you’re entering, plus, idk an email and a OneNote entry for context, to reverse engineer the latest doodad we’ve been designing.

    It’s difficult to imagine what numbers from the calculator alone could be used for, but combine it with other information and you’ve got a problem.