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Other laws you had to comply with where the ones the GDPR is replacing. Several EU country had very similar law. Idon't know about the fines about such laws though, since they were not enforced.

Enforcement is what's going to matter, I'm pretty sure you could dig up other laws that are vague and have high fines, that are just not enforced and thus don't seem as threatening as the widely publicized GDPR.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer, and I may very well be wrong on my assumptions.

On the other hand, patent trolls are not part of the risk profile for our industry in the EU, since software is not patentable there.

But anyway, it makes perfect business sense for a US startup to just block the EU (or at least state somewhere that they are not complying and thus EU users shouldn't sign up) and focus on their home market until they are big enough to comply with the terms (or are willing to take the risk).
Yeah it does actually, though again I'd be concerned about being consigned to the woo category if I used that term.

Also, being a westerner it's one of those concepts I've heard a lot about but almost certainly don't completely grasp, so I wouldn't feel comfortable using it for any kind of rigorous analysis.
As I mentioned, there needs to be both components, royalties and valuation. I'm not sure what the proper mix would be, but it seems like an area where a market based solution could work. You'd probably need some form of arbitration to hammer out explicitly what is novel/being licensed. Patent trolls and large IP war-chest holding companies would probably hate this.
For the rest of the article start by reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200
Datapoint allowed Intel to continue development with the same architecture but required all future processors to have a shuffled instruction set. The mov group on the 8008 and the 2200 was octal 3ds with d being the destination register and s being the source register. The first digit 3 got shuffled to 1. The registers were also shuffled:

8008 bits 8080

A 000 B

B 001 C

C 010 D

D 011 E

E 100 H

H 101 L

L 110 (HL)

(HL) 111 A

Datapoint did not want Intel's future processors to be able to execute Datapoint machine code. They had a lot invested in their software.

Datapoint also had a 5500 processor which was more powerful than the 2200. It was microprogrammed rather than the simpler logic decode of the 2200. It was compatible with the 2200 but had many more instructions (think Z80). Yes it was that instruction set. The engineers at Intel who worked on the 5500 design left to form Zilog.

I worked as an electronics technician at Datapoint and performed test and repair of many 2200 and 5500 processor boards including writing short machine code routines to exercise the hardware.

After I left Datapoint (1977) I worked for Tandy where I repaired thousands of TRS-80 Model 1 computer boards which used the Z80. When the Tandy engineers came into the repair area with the programmers who had written Level 2 BASIC for the TRS-80 with the first masked ROMs, they tried the ROMs on a board and it didn't work. I told them that all the boards in the area needed repair but I had one that I had just repaired. I was introduced to Bill Gates and Paul Allen and the ROMs were put on my repaired board. I typed in a one line program to count and print numbers on the screen and it worked. Bill Gates offered me a job at Microsoft which had about a dozen employees but I turned him down and stayed at Tandy. I wrote more test programs and transitioned into full-time programming.
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I saw this letter quite a while ago (maybe a month ago) in the context of "When you are preparing for GDPR, you should be able to answer these questions". In other words, it was a self test to help you determine whether or not you were fooling yourself about being ready for GDPR. If people are actually using them as data requests, it's very unfortunate.
Yeah, Clojure’s “labels are values” map stuff is pretty nice.
Well that escalated quickly. I'm not saying "people with adequate, diversified retirement savings are evil capitalists." I'm just saying that "We shouldn't count the value of people's houses when determining how wealthy they are." is absurd. Clearly it should count. They own it.

It's not a political stance, just a pro-accuracy one.
The only thing I had a hard time understanding-

OP really cares about his privacy/security/password, but then he uses a secondary system to store it?

Is this the best way to do this? Break into the secondary system and everything is available. Keyloggers, eyes, stolen computers, all have the possibility of everything available.

I considered other solutions like written + put in a lock box in a bank, but thats really inaccessable.
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I updated my web service (solo dev, side project) with a GDPR compliant terms and privacy policy, got this form letter already from a few of my users. I have to tell, it's seriously depressing and I was contemplating shutting the whole side project down over the weekend.
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Its like this with most of academia
I am pretty OK with a little subjective exaggeration, like if someone is at least competent/proficient and describes themselves as “expert”... well, who’s to say? But spending literally 2 minutes clicking a GUI then adding another skill to your CV is breathtaking audacity.
Sorry Dan, it was a comment born of a lack of time, frustration and lack of judgement. I'll try to respond better in the future.
That’s a fair point, but seems to be overly focused on how the template states things about being a customer.

The template clearly is intended for a broad set of situations, and easily modifiable fir businesses where you did not realize they had data about you.
If they didn't someone else would. The market moves itself.
> In some cases, like having received email communication from a business I’ve never used, never provided my email to, and never consented to receive promotional emails from, the situation starts out unfriendly from the very beginning.

Agreed, but that's not the letter writers goal.

> It that case, I want to know about all the data that company has regarding me, and how they got it.

Agreed.

> Most likely I also want them to delete it too.

No, you absolutely want them to delete it, and besides that to tell you if they passed it on.

> Given that their first communication with me is totally unsolicited email marketing, it seems reasonable that if I can reach for a legalese template for a GDPR request, and that raises the chances they’ll take me seriously, then it would be a good thing, almost the precise opposite of trolling (which is more or less what the company was doing by attempting to get data about me in the first place).

Yes, but the letter writer is by their own admission not in that situation, they're a customer of the company, so a direct relationship between them and the company exists, which most likely was initiated by the letter writer.

> And I truly don’t have sympathy for companies like this if they find that answering GDPR requests takes up a lot of their time and they lose money as a result. That is literally the only way they will care about data privacy.

Agreed, but again, that is not the context.

> I agree that this template could be used for trolling, but there are so many valid, positive outcomes that could be made easier by such a template that I think it’s unimportant to focus on possible trolling until it becomes a material problem.

No, it will be used for trolling, in fact it already is being used for trolling. And that's a net negative, which if enough idiots do it will cause the GDPR to be devalued to the point where it is no longer very useful.

> In fact, this just gives companies a way to disingenuously whine about GDPR to legislators. “Look how many troll requests are clogging our system!” When really, many templated requests aren’t troll requests.

That's the whole problem isn't it? Check the context in which the original letter (see link in article) is presented. It's a clear example of trolling.
GDPR laws are causing panic in Europe
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Just shout if you have any questions we can answer about this.

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This was insanely interesting to read. You should totally write about this.
No, it's not. Unless used very sparingly, it makes for a shitty user experience.

I'd risk a guess that the average user doesn't have any problem with aggregate, anonymized data being collected for statistical and debugging purposes. A lot of people here on HN do and they like to extrapolate that to the whole society, but it's a stretch.
The price of most things is a function of labor cost + materials + location where it's made + admin + delivery.

In a perfect world, admin and delivery are nearly 0, the warehouse where it's made is once again as cheap as possible, and the materials and labor will decrease over time as more and more laborers acquire the skills necessary to make the product. This is why drone pilot income is rapidly plumetting, along with database administrators and so on.

Knowing this reality, major corporations and the government have colluded together to "regulate" and "standardize" many industries, as well as creating many burdensome and time consuming processes for all businesses (accounting, HR, compliance).

This admin cruft is the very secret sauce that keeps monopolies and oligopolies alive, while killing innovation and price competition. Essentially, this is the American health care system.

Sales is just part of that cruft. There's a reason I don't need a sales guy to buy a solar panel-- I just need customer support at the most.
A person can be a customer without being in a friendly relationship. Just look at Americans posting online about Comcast.
Alternatively, you can also use UserJS to modify the font size and layout of HN on your browser.

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Step 1: be an American company with no European offices or accounts.

Step 2: Ignore letters about GDPR.

Alternatively, set up a form response to autosend whenever you get an email with some of those keywords.
Any popular website example built in Go?
I'm pretty sure it's worse than most others I've tried.
Won't that make them burn on both ends?
I think the most 'commonly used electronic format' is binary.
As I say, subjective noisy measures.
You should add the application/project name to the post title.
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> one of the local credit unions in Toronto

Got a name? And do you recommend them? Long-time RBC customer, which means they treat me terribly. Mortgage is coming up for renewal soon enough.
Except your bank already has your phone number. If phone was already part of the recovery process, it didn’t make it any less safe by enabling 2FA SMS
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> you blame the app for receiving the result of that mistake

Yes. People all make mistakes. Good tools mitigate mistakes, while bad tools (like this telemetry) exacerbates problems.
I know I’ve posted this before but the law does not intend anything. The law is written, and then stuff happens. People intend and make broad laws that then more precisely get to intent after legal battles / precedent.

This is allowed under the law! If you don’t like it, change the law!

The reason people have been complaining about GDPR this whole time is exactly this. Things take on a whole new meaning when complied with at scale when all you need to send is an email. This seems worse than FOIA (the US Freedom of Information Act) and Europe placed it on their entire private sector.

EDIT: clarity.
This title is just false. There is no panic at all and GDPR is good for everyone. Well maybe everyone except Zuckerberg...
There was absolutely nothing wrong with the cookie law. What was wrong is that companies then went out of their way to FUD it and to mis-interpret it to the point where the law lost much of its value.

The GDPR is a response to that lawyering, but that's no reason why the public at large should now push the pendulum the other way. This law doesn't 'actually suck', but it can be made to 'actually suck' and then we all lose something of value.
I'd agree with that. Someone somewhere is probably going to complain about an instance where it failed, but I honestly would be surprised if regulators made a big deal out of it.
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So is it JUST the initials? Or would the actual middle name serve the same effect I wonder.
Of the several prior discussions, the one at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4678352 is definitely worth reading.
I agree that the letter could be written in a less threatening manner, but the specific questions are required, in my opinion.

If you ask someone whether they are complying with the law, you're likely to just get an inconsiderate "yes", with no indication they even understand the law (there is certainly plenty of misunderstanding that I have seen already, from companies large and small). Making specific questions about their business practises, such that they will have to plainly lie in order maintain a false claim of compliance is more rigorous.
In that situation I would write a completely different letter.

But as a customer of a company in good standing this letter is over the top and in some places dishonest.
I used to teach a training on the subject (all the course material is now free at https://github.com/struct/mms). I had a section on ‘where to look’ for vulnerabilities. I started this section off with a scenario: “You’ve checked out the Chrome tree. Where do you start? OK you want to find Javascript interpreter bugs. Whats the first piece of code in Chrome that sees untrusted Javascript?”. Its a trick question. The answer of course is the networking code or the TLS decryption code. But you’ve never go looking there for Javascript interpreter vulnerabilities. The pt of the thought exercise is to introduce the concept of manual taint analysis. Basically understanding how to analyze what code paths and data structures your untrusted inputs could influence or control and then go from there.
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I’m not even advocating for any program in particular; just curious why we are laser focused on relative wealth metrics when absolute metrics seem more significant.
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I think you’re focusing way too much on the fact that the template is written from the perspective of an existing customer.

On reading the template, it seems super obvious that it doesn’t assume a goal of only being applied to situations when you’re already a highly engaged customer.

Things might be on a spectrum. I might have signed up for a newsletter years ago, then later come to regard that company as a big data risk, then accidentally forget about my old newsletter account.

It would be fine to call myself “an existing customer” in that case, even though my connection to the company is not like a vigorous customer relationship with a company whose services I use all the time.

That’s just a common idiom, very clearly not intended to mean the template is intended for spamming around to every big box company you’ve ever engaged with or something.

You can write, “I’m your customer,” while still feeling that you don’t trust that company and what your request for a comprehensive overview of how they use your data to be taken seriously (hence the template’s value).
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I've played digital card games that sold digital card packs for real money like ten plus years ago. Decipher did the Star Trek CCG online the same way.

I always thought a much more modern scenario would've been if they put like a code or something on physical packs so you could buy them once and have the same cards in both digital and physical form.
For initial launch, the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, on Windows and Mac, Android, and iOS (or only desktop if your service doesn't make sense to use on mobile). Support or accept reduced functionality on the last Internet Explorer (a LOT of consumers are still on older Windows at home).

Adjust this after launch after watching your traffic - you can drop support for browsers that provide little to no traffic; then add it back later when you have enough traffic to warrant it.

Watch how many visitors you get from other browsers and older versions; add support when visitor volume * conversion rate / cost to support suggests higher ROI than other potential uses of that time.

Finally, you may want to support more browsers on your sales page than the app itself. You want to be able to sell your app even to people who find you using Opera Mobile on Windows Phone; but if they want the service enough, you can probably persuade them to fire up Chrome or Firefox to actually run it.
One thing to think about is that accessing a byte memory in a system with n bytes is pretty much guaranteed to be at best a log(n) operation. After all you need log(n) sized address to index the memory, and you need to read every single one of the bits in the address to index the memory.

In practice on any particular machine all the addresses are the same length (and we have finite memory), so it doesn't quite explain the effect you are observing in the article. But it does hint that it makes sense.
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6 character limit was already there during ING Direct years. Possible they were using the old Dutch systems but i find it a tad surprising, they would have needed to set it up from scratch in Canada (as I don’t think anything was stored in Netherlands). So they purposely setup an old-ass system in the 90s. What a shit show
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I would use that strategy only in a situation where the relationship is already adversarial or where some distrust is warranted.

But different strokes for different folks, of course everybody is free to do what they want. But then you should be aware that a torrent of these requests are not going to help make matters better, they will just cause people to tune out and regulators to stop taking the complaints serious.

It's like bringing a chainsaw to a surgery.
How will it be verified if profile is real or fake?
I was looking for articles that supported the health and sanitary claims of the up-poster. What you included shows the idea is not without merit.
Tangerine doesn't support 2FA, and passwords must be 6-digit numbers...
I think music listeners aren't dumb, they can appreciate more complex compositions.

It's just when you turn on the radio, it all sounds the same.

The promotion machine makes it such that the music put in front of us all tends to sound the same, because the industry is just trying to rehash the same hit over and over to milk us for money.
it is the opposite.

established companies have no issues with fees, or legal requests.

gdpr is to protect the established companies from competition.

it is basically a reverse china ban. because china-style banning of competition is still considered bad in the eu.
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When we fitted a ceiling fan in our living room, the instructions stated that in summer, it was best to have it blowing upwards (sucking air up from floor level) because that air would be cooler, and in winter from the same principle, you could blow warmer air down onto the room occupants.

In practise it didn't work that well - the temperature difference in a couple of metres of air space (in a single average-height room) is pretty minimal. We left the fan blowing downwards to use the windchill effect in summer - that worked well enough.
I would still see this letter as appropriate, with minor tweaks, to a company “in good standing.”

(More broadly, I’m not sure I know of even a single company I would consider to be in good standing on this topic without first making them prove it. Certainly not any medium-sized or large company, however good-natured they might seem.)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13352659
It is the best way to do it for the average user.

Modern password management services are incredibly secure, with client-side encryption of your secrets, among other protective mechanisms (to guard against keyloggers, stolen computers, ...)

There is still a risk, because you're trusting third-party software (which in some cases is closed-source – including 1Password), but for most people that is a much lower risk profile than if they were managing passwords themselves.

For specifics on 1password's security, check out https://1password.com/security/
I live in Montreal and I only make sure the doors are locked at night. In some Montreal neighborhoods, it's common for people just leave their front door open to let the air in, even at street level.
How does it compare to Bublé?

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Recently in 2019. Interesting.
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I don't know and I'll take your word for JS (on V8). For Perl vs Python my experience is they are in a similar ballpark in, but Perl has an edge on text processing and Python on numerics (mostly because of better regex engine in Perl and numpy being pretty good in Python). So for parsing stuff Perl is still usually the faster alternative.

I still doubt JS/V8 is faster than one of the VM languages (.NET or JVM), they don't need to be interpreted and have much less dynamic stuff so they can optimize better.
That's why vague laws are bad - you have to assume all laws will be abused unless the language specifically forbids it. It sucks, but its true.
Standout claim from the paper:

> Moreover, people with initials carrying a positive meaning (e.g., H. U. G.) live longer compared with those with initials carrying a negative meaning (e.g., M. A. D.; Christenfeld, Phillips, & Glynn, 1999).

(Emphasis the authors)

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Are commercial in games legal in front children?
Your children play games and more more that games request the users to pay for more content. But most of time, the gamer are children. Are you sure it is legal to request money to children ?
> I might have signed up for a newsletter years ago, then later come to regard that company as a big data risk, then accidentally forget about my old newsletter account.

In that case it looks like the burden lies with you, not with the company and to send a letter like this in that context would be total overkill. I'd start off with a simple request to remove my data.
The not sucking part needs to be a part of the law. You cannot leave intentions up for interpretation and then call those who point it out "dumb".

Of course GDPR is a well intentioned law. It's implementation is debatable though, and you're basically asking people to not talk about its problems.