The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control back to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU. When the GDPR takes effect, it will replace the 1995 Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC).
It was adopted on 27 April 2016. It becomes enforceable from 25 May 2018...
So simple - "we need to do an audit" "oh, look, you record IP addresses before you get permission to do so" "well yeah, that's how servers w" "TWENTY MILLION EURO FINE, RIGHT NOW"
Orrrrr we can shut your site off to protect our citizens from your data practices. Your choice
"personal data is any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to his or her private, professional or public life. It can be anything from a name, a home address, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer’s IP address."
So metasmoke has a scheduled data breach every day at 2:10 AM. It quite happily leaks "information related to an individual", because that's all information ever. Even leaks it in a nice SQL format
@quartata And what of the data not from SE? If social media posts count, why don't flag conditions?
I'm not going to run around changing metasmoke or anything else over this, just pointing out that everyone will be in violation of this. It'll be selective enforcement
@quartata Suppose I'm Facebook and put together a new cookie schema - quick GET request to SO, store profile ID as your identifier. That's personally identifiable, and I don't think it'd be SO's fault if they leaked it
The moderator agreement, as far as I can tell, authorizes them to use the data. There was a fight with some troll on Meta trying to pull this off that got hashed out
We're just normal people who some normal people voted on. SO doesn't even have staff confirmation. If you're the creepy guy GDPR seems to be defending against, getting an SO diamond isn't that hard
Or if you're some foreign intelligence service or whatever
Despite the "not guaranteed" bits they would definitely do it for an EU citizen
That's just to scare off the filthy americano trolls
They can also destroy revisions (so that they can only be viewed by other oversighters, who have to agree to similar stuff as a diamond + be 18 so it's legally binding)
They do that for copyright stuff. If they were forced to though they'd have the tools necessary
That pretty much covers the bases, really
Wikipedia is very obsessive about legal issues, mind you. So you know these processes would hold up
Wait, @Undo, why are you concerned? You are in the US. MS is hosted in the US. The data for MS is stored in the US. Why would the EU have jurisdiction? (Full disclosure...I haven't read that linked wikipedia article)
GDPR is a hot topic since it will start being enforced from 25 May 2018.
One of the most important characteristics of this regulation is that it also applies to companies outside the EU:
A major change made by the GDPR is the territorial scope of the new
law. The GDPR replaces the 1995 EU...
@Andy I kinda think this law is the next step to an EU firewall
I'm not concerned about metasmoke specifically - if someone wants to kill that, let 'em do it. We've got plenty of people with servers.
More concerned about the scenario this sets us up for - where everyone is violating a law with strict penalties.
All they'd really need to do is seize DNS. Wouldn't be hard at all: "All devices capable of accessing the Internet sold in Europe must use the EuroZone PrivacyDefender DNS service, and must not be modifiable"
DNS is all you need to effectively block 99% of people from accessing whatever you don't like
The reason I'd make a poor CEO, this is obviously directed at certain companies...facebook, google, etc. As ceo, I'd say screw you guys, we're going home and shut off the entire continent. But, I wouldn't tell political leaders this. Just, the day it goes into effect, suddenly no one has Facebook or gmail. Let everyone get mad at the political leaders for their crappie understanding of what would happen
Then my share holders would be pissed and I'd get fired
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Let's go a step further: I don't want to deal with this in the future either. So, I'm going to erase all data from all EU accounts before I take my ball and go home. So, I delete your Google account - phone numbers, emails, pictures, YouTube channel, etc- that is synced to that android phones. Poof. All that data is gone. Then I shut off EU users
For erasing company data to comply with a law? I only deleted the users impacted by the law. I wanted to be in compliance before I shut down my services there because the cost of doing business was to high when the law went into effect.
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +4 more: growxlsite.com/male-booster-xl/ by duko on puzzling.SE (@Mithrandir @micsthepick)
@SmokeDetector Other than better formatting, this is an identical answer, including the spam link, as was previously caught & deleted 13 hours ago on this same question.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, +1 more: Tru Loss Forskolin by Aloin Bison on askubuntu.com
@tripleee Yeah, there's no way for FIRE to differentiate between "spam" and "rude" based on the information from MS. It's all tpu- / tpu. It doesn't remember what you clicked, but goes off what's reported by MS.
@tripleee Nah, there's multiple ways that could be done. It's just holding some state info. Holding state only gets interesting if you want to do so across page reloads, on different pages, or in different domains.
@SurajRao MO was a StackExchange 1.0 site which was ported over to the (current) SE 2.0 network, so a lot of the styling etc is reminicent of what it was back then
There are a lot of weird things about MO, in relation to design and community, and virtually all of them can be traced back to the fact that (a) it was a 1.0 site that was ported and (b) it isn't actually owned by SE, in fact it is owned by a non-profit called MathOverflow Inc. SE is simply 'hosting' it (I think that's the best term for it)
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, no whitespace in body, repeating characters in body, title has only one unique char: ----------------- by Ro Theory on physics.SE
@Glorfindel That pattern looks like it's already caught by Potentially bad keyword in body and Potentially bad keyword in answer; append -force if you really want to do that.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: however, anything your goal Testogr by jluv on askubuntu.com
@JAD I vaguely think it's supposed to always say "already reported" but that there is a bug there, but I'm not too familiar with the history of this particular corner of the code