General_Effort @ General_Effort @lemmy.world Posts 59Comments 791Joined 1 yr. ago
Birkenstock gehört Bernard Arnault. Der Franzose ist ein Millionenerbe, der mit Luxusklamotten (LVMH; "Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy") Milliarden gescheffelt hat. Er war lange Jahre der reichste Mensch der Welt, noch vor den amerikanischen Tech-Größen.
Wer meint, Europa hätte keine Oligarchen... Tja. Europa hat bloß kein Tech.
For the purposes of this Regulation:
‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
Anything connected to your username is personal data. Your votes, posts, comments, settings subscriptions, and so on, but only as long as they are or can be actually connected to that username. Arguably, the posts and comments that you reply to also become part of your personal data in that they are necessary context. Any data that can be connected to an email address, or an IP address, is also personal data. When you log IPs for spam protection, you're collecting personal data.
It helps to understand the GDPR if you think about data protection rights as a kind of intellectual property. In EU law, the right to data protection is regarded as a fundamental right of its own, separate from the right to privacy. The US doesn't have anything like it.
Federation means that personal data is sent to anyone who spins up an instance. What legal basis is there for that? These guys and their lawyers weren't able to figure one out.
I don't really see how this ruling is helpful. The reasoning seems to confirm the view that the Fediverse is legally very problematic.
It sounds like it would be relatively easy to fix, but I worry it will strengthen monopolistic tendencies.
By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.
What benefit do you expect from that?
Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.
Why not?
Hah. No. That goes all the way back to the 90ies. Tim Berners-Lee proposed that standard.
I always think about that fable when I see Germans voting for that far-right party.
Doesn't that seem awfully roundabout? You make the practice less effective at the price of also making beneficial uses of the data, eg for medical research, less effective.
The mega-rich can see my tax returns if I can see theirs. The data of the rich and famous is much more valuable than mine. Let's not pretend that this helps the little guy. The little guy doesn't throw around money to get their flight data removed from Twitter.
The question was how "less price gouging" would result from a right not to have "your data harvested by default".
How do you expect that to result?
Tja. Tatsächlich gibt es in Deutschland keinen Adel. Der wurde 1919 abgeschafft. Die "Titel" sind nur noch Bestandteile des Namens. Juristisch ist der einzige Unterschied zwischen diesen pseudo-adligen Leuten, Reichsbürgern oder Rollenspielern der, ob sie Extremisten sind.
Ich verstehe eigentlich nicht, warum man denen das ergaunerte Staatseigentum nicht abnimmt. Das ging bei Nazis ja auch.
We should have the right to not have our data harvested by default.
How would that benefit the average person?
He went to school in Switzerland. Maybe that explains the Laibach concert.
Good choice. Nobody who speaks German could be an evil man.
As a side benefit, you will also be able to converse with Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and Robert Terwilliger.
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The copyright industry would never accept that. Where's the money for them?
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Ahh. Paul McCartney. Looks like Lemmy has finally found a billionaire it likes.
I'm sure it is The Beatles' activism for social change that won people over. Who could forget their great protest song "The Taxman", bravely taking a stand against the 95% tax rate. Truly, the 60ies were a time of liberation.
History Trivia: No one outside Germany knows that "Churchill-quote" because it was made up by Nazi propaganda.
Thank you for the long reply. I took some time to digest it. I believe I know what you mean.
I can also say that the consciousness resides in a form of virtual reality in the brain, allowing us to manipulate reality in our minds to predict outcomes of our actions.
We imagine what happens. Physicists use their imagination to understand physical systems. Einstein was famous for his thought experiments, such as imagining riding on a beam of light.
We also use our physical intuition for unrelated things. In math or engineering, everything is a point in some space; a data point. An RGB color is a point in 3D color space. An image can be a single point in some high dimensional space.
All our ancestor's back to the beginning of life had to navigate an environment. Much of the evolution of our nervous system was occupied with navigating spaces and predicting physics. (This is why I believe language to be much easier than self-driving cars. See Moravec's paradox.)
One problem is, when I think abstract thoughts and concentrate, I tend to be much less aware of myself. I can't spare the "CPU cycles", so to say. I don't think self-awareness is a necessary component of this "virtual environment".
There are people who are bad at visualizing; a condition known as aphantasia. There must be, at least, quite some diversity in the nature of this virtual environment.
Some ideas about brain architecture seem to be implied. It should be possible to test some of these ideas by reference to neurological experiments or case studies, such as the work on split-brain patients. Perhaps the phenomenon of blindsight is directly relevant.
I am reminded of the concept of latent representations in AI. Lately, as reasoning models have become the rage, there are attempts to let the reasoning happen in latent space.