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Certainly! Even as late as the early 2000's, a corporations software 'phoning home' without the users knowledge (and explicit consent) was a minor scandal and a real privacy concern. Now such behaviour is so…
Severely embarrassing the US government? Or maybe just providing free high quality heath care to all its citizens? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba ; The World Bank acknowledges that Cuba's life…
"Privacy friendly" Time was, if a neighbour insisted on daily filming a family entering and leaving their own home, they would have been given a smack in the mouth for being a nosy bastard. Quite how recording your…
They can say goodbye to the European market then. (And the privacy conscious segment of the US market.)
Except harvesting your customers [personal] data isn't just scummy, it is no longer a legitimate business model in Europe. There is no excuse for VCs not getting up to speed on the GDPR.
> Normally I can chuckle at El Reg's hyperbolic sense of humour, Since El Reg's increasing focus on the US market, their sense of humor (note the lack of a U), and what made them 'different' from the rest, has been in…
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Certainly! Even as late as the early 2000's, a corporations software 'phoning home' without the users knowledge (and explicit consent) was a minor scandal and a real privacy concern. Now such behaviour is so…
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Severely embarrassing the US government? Or maybe just providing free high quality heath care to all its citizens? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba ; The World Bank acknowledges that Cuba's life…
"Privacy friendly" Time was, if a neighbour insisted on daily filming a family entering and leaving their own home, they would have been given a smack in the mouth for being a nosy bastard. Quite how recording your…
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They can say goodbye to the European market then. (And the privacy conscious segment of the US market.)
Except harvesting your customers [personal] data isn't just scummy, it is no longer a legitimate business model in Europe. There is no excuse for VCs not getting up to speed on the GDPR.
> Normally I can chuckle at El Reg's hyperbolic sense of humour, Since El Reg's increasing focus on the US market, their sense of humor (note the lack of a U), and what made them 'different' from the rest, has been in…