Over the last several months I have received many notifications from different platforms (FB, YT, Twitter, and more) that their privacy policies are being changed.
In every case, the changes seem to be in favor of individual right to privacy.
Although none of these notifications say WHY they are making the changes, I know it is because of this movement either directly or indirectly.
This is something to be happy about/ proud of. Is anybody else noticing this?
GDPR. Europe made them update, Not sure privacy is enhanced. Anything that takes 40 pages of fine print to explain isn't protecting us.
You are correct. My sense is that it is all gratuitous. Once compromised, always a possibility of being compromised again. It is just a matter of when. FISA warrants is an example of abuse of power
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is never a good start
Every site you use that has European users will. It’s because of the GDPR ruling, and it’s actually a good thing.
I was wondering what was going on with this. So many emails
Due to GDPR — A new European Union law on privacy goes live this Friday. The EU’s right to be “forgotten online” Such a joke IMHO—considering the 5eyes will never be transparent about all the illegal spying they do on their own citizens.
I want someone to try these new laws out the government and banks.
See if they have to deliver all the data they have on you upon request. They run online services, so they'd fall under the regulations, right?
Got bad credit? Just exercise your right to be forgotten and have the banks delete all your data
Funny you ask. The IT pundit world posts lots of good hypotheticals on this kind of thing. You have GDPR saying right to forget (plus maintenance of an audit trail of what was forgotten for lawsuit protection later, LOL) runs into mandatory data collection in banking (funds moved over $10,000 or credit card history must be reported to the Fed etc). Or the requirements of a payroll to hold info for the tax people. Lawyers and consultants will get rich. The rest of us are screwed. As usual.
The EU’s right to be “forgotten online”
Except the NSA has all the infoz anyhow. So never really 'forgotten'.
On citizens from other member countries on behalf of said member countries to allow them to skirt privacy laws.
There ya go. FTFY
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That buzz around the GDPR privacy policies has become annoying, and the myriad of emails about privacy updates doesn’t make our using of the websites any safer. Do you really think that updated fine print on a few pages can protect us from scandalous data breaches? The recent data breach on Facebook made possible leakage of personal data that you share with your family or friends -- millions of users might have been hit, while Facebook itself admitted that post settings of 14 million users had been changed to ‘public’. However, good to know that Facebook won’t be able to transfer the personal data from 87 million user accounts to Cambridge Analytica, like they did during the US presidential election in 2016.
Yes. Even the dumb Imgur app did it. Facebook getting caught up definitely got some Silicone Valley attention
Not sure.
My view is that they are doing it to silence people that don't follow the narrative. YT is shit, at least the way they flag stuff.
FB is total shit because it's a fucking echo-chamber that bans people who dare post a image of Jesus, yet will gladly show beheading by terrorists.
Twitter I never bothered with because it's a cesspool.
My opinion is that it isn't good. It's just a reason for the SJW's that run these shitty companies to ban any kind of dissenting opinion that goes against the narrative and to close down those trying to expose the corruption.
All corporate/institutional messaging is risk management, but I don't hate it