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It's rather the other way around, Word is not 1 to 1 compatible with LibreOffice Writer when it comes to document editing. Writer is far better on that aspect.

Providing the service is selling groceries, that doesn't require a birth date.

So it's not possible to sneak it under performance of contract. Only Legitimate Interest or Consent could be valid, and you can oppose/retract.

But good readng, please provide our findings, that will save me a reading 😅

What data controller is that?

Very few of them have a valid ground to process your birh date. Do they need it to provide you the service? No? Then they fail the data minimization requirement.

and refusing access right on the ground of the birth day, which they should not have in the first place, is the cherry on the cake.

Send them a letter to tell thel that you are ready to submit a complaint to your regulator (or the lead regulatior), but that you are ready to compromize to save hassle to everybody. A few thousands are always welcome.

But again, this is valid only if the controller have no ground to process birth date. If it provide adult stuff, or legal benefits, etc. it's a different story.

Probable course of action is MSFT implementing a hotfix in the next 3-6 months, that will be nowhere near to address the topic.

Another 2 years of EDPS investigation.

Then MSFT will release another patch 3-6 months after that actually solves the issue.

But in the meantime, they would have implemented another mechanism to spy on users.

Rince and repeat.

Article 3 GDPR is straightforward, gdpr will apply.

The real question is how any kind of authority could enforce it ? Almost no chance that any law enforcement/regulator will bother a single-user instance purely on the ground of gdpr...

I’m not so sure about the GDPR status for the Fediverse, I don’t think there’s the law is prepared for “Jerry runs this for people, just for fun”. It’s very much “official organisation” or “money grabbing business” oriented. Someone should fund an actual lawyer to look into this and lay down the real requirements.

I'm working in the gdpr compiance field ;) Using a personnal device to monitor public space doesn't fall under the household exception, this solution even pre-dates the GDPR (https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-12/cp140175en.pdf).

(the case-law is about camera fixed on a private house, but the logic easily translates in a private server grabbing public data).

but when legal compliance comes up, everybody just sticks their fingers in their ears and pretends not to hear you.

Just as you did ^^

No, Lemmy servers are not exempt from GDPR compliance. The household exemption (you are not subject to gdpr for private activities) only applies for purely personnal activities. As soon as a service is offered to someone else, the exemption is no more applicable.

That's one of the drawback about open-source projects, they are designed to fulfill a need (persistent storage & decentralised communication for Lemmy), and no one give a f*ck about legalities.

Damn... I'm a Linux user that basically hates the MS way of life, but I must admit that they are taking AI seriously AND share their tools. So kudos, please continue !

I shamelessly reused the AI assesment template at work and this RIT will be pushed to some colleagues.

Just to clarify, I'm self-hosting. I'm using neither Proton nor Dropbox.

However, I'm a privacy pro, and I read Privacy Policies on a daily basis (ok.. weekly basis).

The US companies recently moved to disclose ALL the providers they are using (including for controller activities) where European companies still hide this information (and disclose only the providers used to deliver the service). For a very concrete example, Salesforces is mentionned by Dropbox where Proton is silent about the crm they use.

On this specific aspect, the USA are ahead of EU.

That's all I meant.

If you want to read it as "give your data to the USA", feel free, but that's not what I said.

I was not saying "Dropbox good" or "Proton bad", just correcting a few things about the privacy policy in itself and what it means.

Encryption will not protect your privacy in the specific case of Dropbox.

They look into your activity, not files.

And that's pretty much standard for any kind of commercial SaaS, just because of security concerns.

Also, they are quite transparent about the provider they are using for internal activities (Stripe, etc.). Companies in EU will typically not disclose such information. For example, Dropbox disclose the use of AWS (for hosting the infra & code, I guess), whereas Proton does not disclose any hosting company.

2 main reasons in my view:

• windows is the de facto standard for desktop ans users management. So each corp has at least one guy used to the interface to dofirst-level debug
• windows comes with support, not linux. So corps don't want to employe one Linux admin "just in case". That's the main reason I keep hearing from sysadmins I know

45€/month for 250 Mbits/sec in ADSL. 85€ for 1Gbps in optic fiber (250Mbps upload)

I have the ADSL connection, and sometimes in hot summer it disconnects. Same in case of thunderstorm.

Back in France, I had 1Gbps (up and down) optic fiber for 40€, and not a single interruption in 4 years.

Germany is shit for Internet connections...

Expensive and slow...

It's possible, I've been tricked last year by a similar attack (the sneakiest attack possible to target privacy people, imho).

I praise IT Security for putting so many safeguards, sandboxes and verifications!

Price is a thing, but having the option to chose is definitely good.

Now comes the real question: do you really trust the Zuck to implement a "do not share/sell anything" policy ? 'Cause yeah, if I'm paying, I'm expecting that none of my data is being sold/processed/transmitted to another company. Paying to just remove ads is .. pointless.

By definition, Jedis are doing the Good.

But be it in movies, books or comics, I never came accross any mention of working hours or PTO.

They have unionize.

It misses the most important information: why.

The CNIL (French privacy regulator) slapped Discord in October last year because they never deleted accounts (hi GDPR).

Since then, all tech companies are hurriedly designing a plan to mass delete inactive accounts.

That's the result when you ask people with no knowledge of the product to draft your legal documents. More worrying, it also mean that no one internally actually reviewed those documents.

If you are actually the owner of that specific one, get in touch with a specialized lawyer. Time for BIG money.

(Piracy go both ways, corporate can also infringe IP ;) )