There is a growing trend where organisations are strictly limiting the amount of information that they disclose in relation to a data breach. Linked is an ongoing example of such a drip feed of PR friendly motherhood statements....
Nha they publish metadata describing the leaked data. If you’re a data subject concerned by the incident you then request a copy of yr information which requires proper identification.
Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....
As you may know, ChatGPT collects a lot of data on the users for the improvement of their AI, but this poses risks in its own way. I was wondering whether there are privacy alternatives to ChatGPT. Perhaps on F-Droid or Aurora/PlayStore, or for Linux....
Typically llm are rather ressource intensive - you need beefy hardware to run those at speed. Especially if you intend to train them with your data to improve their relevance. I don’t think mobile phones or run to the mill laptops are going to be enough for any non-trivial implementations. I might be skewed by experiences on non-personal projects though.
State media reported that a grouping of ships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet, led by the Varyag cruiser, arrived at the Iranian port of Chabahar on Monday ahead of the drills that will see representatives from the navies of Azerbaijan, India, Kazakhstan, Oman, Pakistan and South Africa act as observers....
There goes my week and prolly the whole year… I look forward the internal assessment at my job but chances are local authorities will follow on this and the implications are crazy. At first read it puts the bars sooooo high on several principles that basically no existing IT intensive business will have a chance to survive similar audit.
« Perfectly possible » but at what cost and with what compromises though ? Not specifically looking at Microsoft - the same would apply to similar products. Also a lot of the blame is on the commission itself and the lack of controls over its data - which also has nothing to do with where it’s being processed. Even if you do 100% in EU with open source software you can still fail many of the controls if you don’t track your data, have appropriate documentation to demonstrate it, did the required assessments… and those expectations are what bit them in the ass I think. And likely it will bit a lot of other actors that aren’t putting much effort in the same.
A lot of businesses (including my current employer) seem to enjoy the integrated ecosystem offered by ms from the office suite to sharepoints to mail indeed with a sprinkle of power bi and the form thingy.
You can replicate all that but it is absolutely not trivial. And the end user also typically will find it less easy to interact with all the pieces.
I dont really use it much tbf just thought it was a cool project but I’ve just read about how lemmy instances can be fined for not complying with GDPR Read more
Technically he must still comply especially with data subject rights / request for deletion.
Now I wonder how that would work in practice, considering the underlying technology which is akin to what I manage (telco / isp) and where a lot of principles are still vague to implement.
Like when we get request to delete personal data sometimes some has been transmitted by nature of the service and a lot of actors have legitimate interest in processing / keeping the data for a while.
But generally it’s not about the content of a transmission but more the attached metadata used for billing and such.
Anyway it’s very interesting to watch, preferably from a distance.
Sometimes establishing a precedent with a weaker party is a good strategy though. It even went as far as litigating known parties for piracy issues. Anything is fair game to some actors.
Thought for GDPR most actors are legit and the actions have merits. Shoutout to Mr Schrems for example.
Yeaahhhh I don’t know about that… likely all instances are processors. And the on he subscribe to would be controller. Somewhat because to my knowledge no one really decides of particular treatment of the user data (it’s all rather communist architecturally). So maybe every instance would be join controller…
And in the end up to the (join) controller to cascade the request. That’s part of why it’s a thing of beauty to watch it happen on the feddiverse 😅
As long as they process data of European citizens it’s applicable. See all gdpr fines imposed…. Now the execution / collection would be a bitch but I could imagine à order to stop processing the data imposed to European instances…
I mean pretty crazy things can happen. See the various adequacy decisions / appeals by Mr Schrems; I cannot give guidance with a life expectancy of more than 1 year given the instability of the application of the regulation.
It’s absolutely not based on common law indeed but you can be sure that precedents are still a big thing especially for such regulations… we are watching like awks what’s happening everywhere because we know there will be a lot of consistency both on decisions but also on the topics being pursued.
A House of Commons committee is set to study legislation proposed by Independent Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne that would require Canadians to verify their age to access porn online.
Key point in my opinion is the definition of « what things » should be so tightly regulated wrt to age for one thing. I doubt access to porn by minors is a proven societal problem and even more so that the proposal to solve via the verification mechanism is proportionate.
This reeks of puritan religious bullshit.
Anecdotally I didn’t turn out to be a psycho as much as my relatives that piously shy away from porn.
It’s a classic figure in western culture… and a fitting character given his story and the planet he’s from. We’ve had plenty cowboys in movies, comic strips and I’m from europe… Not my favourite setting but it works…
How much should an organisation reveal about a data breach? (www.arrl.org)
There is a growing trend where organisations are strictly limiting the amount of information that they disclose in relation to a data breach. Linked is an ongoing example of such a drip feed of PR friendly motherhood statements....
PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)
Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....
Privacy alternatives ChatGPT
As you may know, ChatGPT collects a lot of data on the users for the improvement of their AI, but this poses risks in its own way. I was wondering whether there are privacy alternatives to ChatGPT. Perhaps on F-Droid or Aurora/PlayStore, or for Linux....
German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany' (www.pcgamer.com)
China, Iran and Russia hold joint war games in Gulf of Oman in response to threats to coastal trade (www.aljazeera.com)
State media reported that a grouping of ships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet, led by the Varyag cruiser, arrived at the Iranian port of Chabahar on Monday ahead of the drills that will see representatives from the navies of Azerbaijan, India, Kazakhstan, Oman, Pakistan and South Africa act as observers....
European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU institutions and bodies (www.edps.europa.eu)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/13035348...
should i delete my lemmy instance
I dont really use it much tbf just thought it was a cool project but I’ve just read about how lemmy instances can be fined for not complying with GDPR Read more
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Blocking Pornhub access in Canada an option, owners say. Here’s why (globalnews.ca)
A House of Commons committee is set to study legislation proposed by Independent Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne that would require Canadians to verify their age to access porn online.
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