A critical reflection on GDPR
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@luhmann said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
@gąska
Then again pedal cars are rather gay
Real men don't use pedals!
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@gąska said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
Real men don't use
pedalsvelcro!
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"Stylish" browser extension steals all your internet history | Robert Heaton
Before it became a covert surveillance tool disguised as an outstanding browser extension, Stylish really was an outstanding browser extension. It bestowed upon its users nothing less than the power to change the appearance of the internet. Its extensive bank of user-made skins gave bright websites...
Wonder when/if they'll get shaken down by Eurothorities...
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I Googled “stylish spyware” and found lots of shops selling fashionable espionage gear. I also found plenty of articles confirming that Stylish were up to no good.
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I checked my letterbox this morning to find a letter from Pearson. This is rare enough to be exciting (I've had more court summons in the last ten years than letters). Sadly, it was a letter about GDPR.
I'm pretty sure I've done some training with them so them having my address is conceivable. However, there is no way they have my address without also having my email address.
Bonus
: the letter stated I needed to log in to my account and agree before the 15th of June. The letter was sent on the 14th, and no doubt didn't get to me before the 18th.
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@luhmann I like how the trailer has a steering wheel...
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@Zerosquare said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
But if you find nothing wrong with adding more than 300 food additives to ketchup or sharing users' personal data with more than 300 third parties, I don't know what to tell you.
Apples and oranges.
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@dcon
So that one bothers you but the fact that only one of the front steering wheels actually steers doesn't bother you?
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@luhmann said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
@dcon
So that one bothers you but the fact that only one of the front steering wheels actually steers doesn't bother you?I assumed both front ones work. Like an airplane!
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@luhmann said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
@dcon
So that one bothers you but the fact that only one of the front steering wheels actually steers doesn't bother you?The whole affair reminded me of a merry-go-round.
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@hungrier said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
fashionable espionage gear
Isn't it counterproductive for espionage gear to be fashionable?
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@gąska It could make it easier to conceal. Observe this example from the 1990s:
Normal spy camera:
Fashionable spy camera:
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@wft What does happiness have to do with a bundle of sticks? Is someone glad to have some firewood?
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@djls45 said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
Apples and oranges.
Yes, I'm pretty sure both
https://i.imgur.com/wlxhF1c.png
and
http://www.lowcostmobile.com/img/logoorange.jpg
collect personal data.
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@coldandtired said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
I checked my letterbox this morning to find a letter from Pearson. This is rare enough to be exciting (I've had more court summons in the last ten years than letters).
I initially started reading, "I checked my litterbox this morning..."
Sadly, it was a letter about GDPR.
Yep. Initial reading confirmed correct.
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@dcon said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
@Luhmann I like how the trailer has a steering wheel...
It can be very useful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKf7P9-OGZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrqu9n1ppYk
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@izzion said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
"Stylish" browser extension steals all your internet history | Robert Heaton
Before it became a covert surveillance tool disguised as an outstanding browser extension, Stylish really was an outstanding browser extension. It bestowed upon its users nothing less than the power to change the appearance of the internet. Its extensive bank of user-made skins gave bright websites...
Wonder when/if they'll get shaken down by Eurothorities...
Niiiice. Not.
Good thing I did switch to Stylus right after Stylish was sold.
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@m_adams I switched to it on my work computer when I read that article earlier today. Will do so at home as well.
e: Not just because of the spyware but also because the old Stylish, current Stylus interface is nicer than new Stylish.
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@hungrier
Yeah, it seems Stylus was an all-around huge upgrade :)
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@m_adams said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
Good thing I did switch to Stylus right after Stylish was sold.
I probably won't bother switching. I think I only have one piece of custom CSS and, IIRC, it's for the old
TDWTF forum, so it — and Stylish in general — no longer server any useful purpose for me. So unless I remember incorrectly, I'll just uninstall it.
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@hardwaregeek This one's pretty useful though.
https://i.imgur.com/1wTVbSU.png
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@djls45
What kind of borring thing is that ... normal arrangements like that feature a beer tap
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@luhmann No longer common in Amsterdam, where they've been banned for obstructing traffic.
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@hardwaregeek I've moved most of my custom CSS to the profile setting, but I still keep one separate in the plugin because I don't know if/how badly it will break mobile or other browsers:
/* fix composer resize bar */ .composer .resizer { left: 0; } .composer .resizer .trigger { width: 100%; height: 20px; top: -24px; left: 0; margin: 0; padding-left: 20px; background: none !important; border: none !important; border-radius: 0; line-height: 26px; cursor: ns-resize; text-align: left; } .composer .resizer .trigger i { color: #333; background: rgba(255,255,255,.5); border-radius: 50%; height: 22px; width: 22px; text-align: center; } .composer .resizer:hover .trigger i { visibility: hidden; }
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In other news...
“Stylish” extension with 2M downloads banned for tracking every site visit
Stylish also stored search results and, by default, a unique identifier.
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@blakeyrat said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
We're talking about cookies here.
(he is reading your post on that phone)
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Actual harm caused by tracking: you get a higher price depending on your profile while shopping online.
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An interesting data point for the "but cookies are required for websites to work!" crowd:
Besides the fact that the "agree to everything or go away" isn't GPDR compliant, note how only 9 cookies are actually required (or 8 if you don't care about storing your preferences). The other 200 ones do no have any benefit for the user.
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@zerosquare said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
8 if you don't care about storing your preferences
I had that on a website where if you rejected the Preferences cookie it didn't save your cookie preferences and asked you for them again.
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Worse is the ones using "Trustarc".
Seems normal at first...
When you submit you get this for a couple of minutes:
During which the website is unusable:
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Oh, give them a break. They have to tell each one of the third-parties they depend on "this user doesn't want cookies", and then each third-party has to do the same with the third-parties they depend on, etc.
It probably ends up being a O(n!) operation with n=200 or something like that. A few minutes to run that is actually pretty impressive.
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@loopback0 said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
I had that on a website where if you rejected the Preferences cookie it didn't save your cookie preferences and asked you for them again.
As we've discussed that's a gigantic gaping logic hole in the law itself.
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Yeah, so about the lack of privacy laws with teeth in the U.S.:
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@lolwhat Well we better add a little badge to every website saying it uses cookies! That'll fix that problem right away!
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From the "bet you didn't think GDPR would tell you that" department:
FIFA player uses GDPR to find out everything EA has on him, realises he's spent over $10,000 in two years on Ultimate Team
A FIFA player used GDPR to find out everything publisher EA had on him - and realised he'd spent an incredible $10,000 …
EA also provided data relating to how much real world money (in dollars) Michael had spent on FIFA Points, and he told Eurogamer he was "gobsmacked" to discover he'd spent over $10,000 in just two years.
EA's spending data for Michael, which he has not published to Imgur but has shown Eurogamer, shows two figures for the amount spent, each relating to two different periods. One figure is $6144 spent between 2nd November 2016 and 29th August 2017, the other $10,010, spent between 25th September 2017 and 21st May 2018. In total, this would mean Michael has spent $16,154 over two years, not just over $10,010 as Michael first thought.
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@dcoder Goddamnit, did he really say "gobsmacked"? Because now I want him to lose more like $500,000. Because fuck him.
"Gobsmacked". Probably the kind of tool who always types "whilst" on internet forums, too.
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@blakeyrat what, do you have issues comprehending big words?
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The White House could be working on its own version of the GDPR
If you've been keeping an eye on your inbox lately, you've probably caught wind of Europe's recently-implemented General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For the unaware, the GDPR...
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@DCoder :
the Trump Administration aims to craft a consumer privacy protection policy that is the appropriate balance between privacy and prosperity
So they think respecting privacy is a
to economic health. Not that it's a particularly new point of view, but I didn't expect them to say it that clearly.
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@Zerosquare Our great leader tells it like it is.
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@pie_flavor said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
@blakeyrat what, do you have issues comprehending big words?
Some words are douchier than others. But none more than "whilst."
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@boomzilla Sets a high bar...
Yeah, I think ending a sentence with
sportis way douchier.
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@Gribnit aww hunnie, sounds like someone's annoyed?
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@bb36e What say you, sport?
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This is... nice? Pleasant surprise but I didn't have to know? Thanks, anyway!
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HOW MUCH SHIT ARE YOU STORING IF YOU NEED A PROGRESS SPINNER TO SAVE ALL THE PREFERENCES?
That's Forbes, btw.
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@Onyx said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
HOW MUCH SHIT ARE YOU STORING IF YOU NEED A PROGRESS SPINNER TO SAVE ALL THE PREFERENCES?
That's Forbes, btw.
They store 3 30 char long string values and 2 numeric ones. They added the spinner because it looks professional. It disappeared so quickly it wasn't visible, so now it's set to spin for 10 seconds always.
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@MrL said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
They added the spinner because it looks professional. It disappeared so quickly it wasn't visible, so now it's set to spin for
1045-90 seconds always.FTFY. Because that's about how long it took.
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@MrL said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
They added the spinner because it looks professional. It disappeared so quickly it wasn't visible, so now it's set to spin for 10 seconds always.
I don't know about this one in particular, but I've seen the same kind of dialog (the TRUSTe submission thing). It infuriated me because it implied that in order for me to opt out of their data storage, it transmits my data to literally dozens of 3rd parties. That's not how "don't share data about me with 3rd parties" works.
Also, it took forever.
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