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That's the latest incarnation of SOPA, isn't it? Goddamn them to Hell, why are they so persistent about enacting this law?!
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I don't think it is. It's basically mandating the DHS to develop procedures to protect American systems from being hacked. It's focused on government systems but also protects private systems with written consent.
It has none of the usual stuff about piracy or protecting intellectual property or the like. It's just mandating improvements in cybersecurity.
edited 18th Dec '15 10:57:00 AM by TobiasDrake
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Is this connected with ECHR's judgement on the US "Safe Harbour"?
Nah, I don't think it has anything to do with that. That one was about data transfer into the US.
SOPA/PIPA had nothing to do with terrorism or security, it was a copyright law.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I only got this from Finnish newspapers just now, but the new EU privacy protection laws are going forward.
Among other things, under 16 year olds cannot use social media without parental consent, but member states can lower this to 13 (the same it was before).
Any company found to breaking the new rules can be fined up to 4% of their global turnover.
edited 18th Dec '15 11:51:34 AM by TerminusEst
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Yay, way to entrust the ignorant to lead the immature.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Judging by the article I read, it seems to be a simple update on the earlier data protection mandates from 20 years ago. Just tighter controls on the sharing of information between companies and harsher punishments.
Will need to read the text.
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On another topic, this is something I didn't know but probably should have: Apparently political campaigns use citizen website searches and purchases to decide who to actively campaign towards.
To say this is sickening and creepy is an understatement.
"Like everything else in society, campaigns have become increasingly reliant on algorithms and apps. In this case, they help pinpoint with precision who might lean one way or another based not just on the way and frequency they have voted in the past, but also on such factors as what websites they visit, purchases they make and publications they read."
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Sex tape row: German court orders man to destroy naked images
The Federal Court was called upon to rule in a dispute between a former couple, who were arguing over whether or not the man should delete intimate photos and videos.
In its ruling (in German), the court said everyone had the right to decide whether to grant insight into their sex life - including to whom they grant permission and in what form.
It said that by retaining the images, the photographer had a certain "manipulative power" over his ex-lover. He should no longer have rights to the photos and videos once the relationship had ended, it concluded. It is not clear how the ruling will be enforced.
Interesting.
edited 22nd Dec '15 11:32:35 AM by Greenmantle
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Given the way sex tapes can be abused or even turn into time wasters, I don't see a problem with this.
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As noted, it creates some rather thorny enforcement problems, the execution of which might entail greater invasion of privacy than the problem they are designed to solve.
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It'll probably be enforced that if he uploads them somewhere, he'll be charged with something.
Manipulative power that would not have existed if having naked pictures or sex tapes didn't ruin your goddamn life thanks to the society being a collective herd of backwards idiots on this issue, among others.
It is cool that more governments are making this shit illegal, but they wouldn't have to if such a thing didn't work in the first place. If having a nude picture didn't mean losing your job, getting slut shamed, and if you're a teenager on the eeeh side of legal, viciously fucking hounded by law enforcement like you're some kind of a criminal mastermind they've been fighting for generations.
A procrastination in of itself
In this case he'll be charged if he so much as keeps them. Now enforcement will be next to impossible, but if he's found to still have them (due to uploading them, being found with them or them being found in his possession when he's say searched over something else) he's in the shit for that alongside anything else.
I don't get why a person would keep naughty photos of an ex anyway, that's just weird and probably very unhealthy for you mentally.
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It looks like the ex had asked him to delete the photos, really, and had taken it to court (which might've been a result of the photographer's persistence). Even without slut-shaming and such, it's creepy for your ex to still keep naked photos of you.
Are companies going to enforce rules for everyone to submit identification cards before they can create accounts?
No chance. Even pornographic websites don't do that, and they have a lot more to lose from someone who is underage uploading pornographic imagery of themselves.
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The Guardian: Companies can monitor workers' private online chats, European court rules
The case revolved around a Romanian engineer who was fired in 2007 after his company discovered he was using Yahoo Messenger to chat not only with his professional contacts but also with his fiancee and brother.
Company policy prohibited the use of the messaging app for personal purposes.
The European court of human rights (ECHR) dismissed the engineer’s argument that the company had violated his right to confidential correspondence.
The court said it was not “unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours”, adding that the company had accessed the messages in the belief they contained professional communications.
The judges also defended the decision by Romania’s courts to allow transcripts of the engineer’s communications be used against him in court, saying: “It proved that he had used the company’s computer for his own private purposes during working hours.”
By withholding the identities of the people with whom he had communicated, Romania’s courts struck a “fair balance” between respect for privacy and the interests of the employer, the court in Strasbourg ruled.
The ECHR’s judgments are binding on countries that have ratified the European Convention on Human Rights.
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It has long been established that employees do not enjoy a right to privacy in their communications while they are at work, during working time, using an employer's equipment. I see no fundamental issue here that hasn't already been settled.
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edited 13th Jan '16 11:37:37 AM by Luminosity
This maybe against the Finnish constitution. Depending on how the particular clause is interpreted.
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Even I, TV Tropes own privacy advocate, can't find anything to object to here. It's the company's equipment, bro.
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Am I an awful person because the first thing I thought about that was "who the fuck still uses yahoo?"
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
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, The case started back in 2007.
CISA quietly slipped into the 2016 budget bill.
Since the bill "has" to pass or we have another government shutdown, it looks like CISA will be enacted.
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'd this into the budget? Inquiring minds want to know.