Notices by Marcus Bointon (synchro@phpc.social)

@aral My cousin has a patent pending on nail varnish containing graphene that's conductive so you can tap the screen with your nails directly

@ryanc Any clues on the password? I tried variants of all the ones I could think of from the movie!

@leymoo @pgcd @codinghorror @dalias An example I've used in conf talks about this is that the colour red by itself is neither PII nor personal data. But if it's stored as your favourite colour, it *is* personal data, though it's still not PII.
It's very hard to define PII well – it ends up in star-bellied sneetch territory

@leymoo @codinghorror @dalias @lispi314 it’s not nuanced at all; it’s very, very simple: Don’t do dodgy shit, and you don’t have to request consent. Your take merely underlines that you have fallen completely into the bogus malicious compliance trap that adtech set for you. It’s not the regulation’s fault, though you could legitimately blame the lack of enforcement for its prevalence.

@CaptainMalu @neil all our privacy efforts are continuously undermined by a regulator that not only fails to enforce, but commits the very offences it’s meant to prevent

@neil @CaptainMalu all major email apps default to not showing images for this reason. I’ve also had the ICO describe this tracking as “industry standard” after we complained about them doing unconsented tracking in their own emails

Unusual marketing angle! #Montreal

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@cwebber Alternative acronym: GNU is Not for U?