I don't give a shit who else is involved, no criminal act justifies or excuses another. And no amount of crap by those who do not understand that the world isn't serial ticker tape can change that. I want all those who committed crimes in the election in solitary confinement in a SuperMAX or equivalent and I don't give a shit about their nationality or rank.
Also doesn't matter what the TOS says, EU law trumps the TOS. Just the way it is. And I want to see those folks in total isolation cells in the deepest dungeons that exist. This violates human rights and human dignity. It cannot be tolerated by anyone with an ounce of intellect.
Uh, no, and that would be irrelevant. Only way to find if a profile is American is to harvest it and if you harvest it through malware you are copying personally identifiable information unlawfully.
The DPA doesn't specify origin, anyway. It specifies personally identifiable information. And that's it. This violates the law, however you cut it.
No, because - for some peculiar reason - election laws only apply to elections. I know, it's odd, but there you go. The law is what it is and they're obliged to obey it. If you do the crime, you bloody well aught to do the time. Or is law and order only a concern when it's the other side?
First, it wasn't. This was stolen by malware in apps through private accounts with non-public access rights. RTFA.
Second, it's in violation of the CMA and DPA of the UK and EU. The EU takes these things seriously.
Third, it violated election laws in the U.S., along with civil service laws. Trump might not care, but the special prosecutor will, as will politicians who are up for re-election.
And they admit they wrote malware, specifically a logic bomb, that downloaded private and confidential information, a clear-cut example of violating the Computer Misuse Act in addition to the Data Protection Act.
If this reaches court before Brexit, Facebook will be liable for at least £5 billion and CA will be crushed into oblivion. Possibly taking Cambridge University with it, if it's shown the university was aware of the activities.
Data Protection Act, U.S. election laws, and the stuff that was taken included anything private. This was not simple harvesting of public data, this was hacking of personal accounts via malware in an app.
Cambridge Analystics is in the EU. Different rules. Each profile stolen violates the Data Protection Act and European Human Rights, regardless of where the person was located, because the data was stored in Europe and CA was a European company under European law.
If those 50 million sued, they'd win, because under the DPA your data cannot be transferred from the E.U. to any country with weaker protections.
Furthermore, the U.S. election laws forbid foreign national involvement, violations of the fourth for electioneering and spying on American nationals by US agencies even via third parties.
If this goes to court, the proverbial fan will be crushed under the impact.
It includes private data. The app used to take everything.
And, yes, it is a breach. It doesn't matter what you set public, if you operate in the EU (and Cambridge is still in there), you abide by EU Data Protection laws. You are forbidden from collecting personal data without both a license and permission (they had neither) and you are forbidden from reselling it to a nation with weaker data protection laws (the U.S. included).
Every last one of those 50 million can sue Data Analytics. And they should. Even if they're awarded only £100 each, CA will deserve the consequences.
Regardless, data theft is a criminal enterprise, conspiracy to defraud is a criminal enterprise, violation of US election laws by involving foreign nationals is a criminal enterprise, government agencies conspiring to defraud the electorate is - essentially - treason, and Cambridge Analytics violated EU data protection laws on top of all that.
Fine, arrest everyone who is guilty of such a crime, throw the lot in a SuperMAX and never let them see the light of day again. Exonerate no-one. If that means incarcerating the entire DNC as well as the GOP and half the intelligence services, who the hell cares? Take the criminals off the streets, every last one of them.
When most celebrities die of an "overdose", what is really meant is the doctor screwed up and prescribed two meds that are known to react badly. It's called an overdose to avoid liability.
Opioid overdose will sometimes fall into that category and sometimes it's a get-rich-quick scheme involving kickbacks and deliberate fraud knowing the patient will die anyway.
Suicide is a third possibility. America has bugger all for mental health, on the pretext that Real Men never need help. Oh, you can spend a lot, and there's lots of Manly therapy where you're given the chance to give a moron lots of money for no help.
Apparently, the solution to everyone being unhappy all the time is to move around lots of green pieces of paper. Which is odd, because on the whole it isn't the little green pieces of paper that are unhappy. See the Guide for details.
There's nothing suspicious about it, there's lots suspicious about paranoid schizophrenics blaming Clinton, the CIA, and so on. These people need help, but Reagan shut down all the hospitals instead of fixing them.
If you want something to get suspicious about, it's the homeless lunatics being armed by the Feds, under a plan currently under review.
No problem. You just tell the restaurant owners and customers that the price is prohibitively high because that data centre over there stole all the power. Oh, and baseball bats are 50c each. The marketplace will decide.
This is a case where you're far better off nationalizing. It's not like everyone has a wire to the power company they specifically buy from. Set the price per watt at 1.25x time the estimated power cost of generating the average bitcoin in the next quarter. That way, it's not economic and we can use electricity for useful things like Folding@Home and BOINC.
Voltage regulator. The circuit breakers that exist in the power grid already suffice. Just set the point to pre-spike levels for each district. If the district exceeds that, it gets cut out of the grid.
Ummm, no. Capitalism is not the best of the alternatives. I doubt many on Slashdot know of any alternatives. (Communism is not an alternative, it is a theory of control not currency. Barter is not an alternative, barter is simplified capitalism.)
If you can post ten different alternatives and state, with fallacy-free logic, why they're inferior, I'll accept your claim. If you make no effort, you are implicitly accepting that you really didn't look at any alternatives before posting that.
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Then you never understood Snowden's message, never understood what Facebook records and never understood European law.
And people wonder why the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Ignorance.
What did you expect? Plenty of experienced writers who are old-timers on Slashdot, but they aren't the ones who run the site or who were hired.
This is standard in industry and is why Apple and Microsoft write such defective software.
Umm, no it doesn't, you know this, and frankly I wish for a new constitutional amendment requiring conspiracy theorists be dropped in a volcano.
What was lost by people accessing your private data in your account?
Every page you've ever visited, including any that could compromise you.
Every post you've ever written, even to closed and secret groups.
Every after you've chased. Every move you made. Every like you paid, every group you've saved, they've been watching you.
Oh, don't you see, you're in their data tree, every move you've made means that they get paid.
I don't give a shit who else is involved, no criminal act justifies or excuses another. And no amount of crap by those who do not understand that the world isn't serial ticker tape can change that. I want all those who committed crimes in the election in solitary confinement in a SuperMAX or equivalent and I don't give a shit about their nationality or rank.
Big Data does have analytic value. I refer you to the Snowden papers.
Also doesn't matter what the TOS says, EU law trumps the TOS. Just the way it is. And I want to see those folks in total isolation cells in the deepest dungeons that exist. This violates human rights and human dignity. It cannot be tolerated by anyone with an ounce of intellect.
Uh, no, and that would be irrelevant. Only way to find if a profile is American is to harvest it and if you harvest it through malware you are copying personally identifiable information unlawfully.
The DPA doesn't specify origin, anyway. It specifies personally identifiable information. And that's it. This violates the law, however you cut it.
No, because - for some peculiar reason - election laws only apply to elections. I know, it's odd, but there you go. The law is what it is and they're obliged to obey it. If you do the crime, you bloody well aught to do the time. Or is law and order only a concern when it's the other side?
First, it wasn't. This was stolen by malware in apps through private accounts with non-public access rights. RTFA.
Second, it's in violation of the CMA and DPA of the UK and EU. The EU takes these things seriously.
Third, it violated election laws in the U.S., along with civil service laws. Trump might not care, but the special prosecutor will, as will politicians who are up for re-election.
I'm pretty sure MIT isn't in England. Could be wrong.
No, you didn't RTFA.
And they admit they wrote malware, specifically a logic bomb, that downloaded private and confidential information, a clear-cut example of violating the Computer Misuse Act in addition to the Data Protection Act.
If this reaches court before Brexit, Facebook will be liable for at least £5 billion and CA will be crushed into oblivion. Possibly taking Cambridge University with it, if it's shown the university was aware of the activities.
Data Protection Act, U.S. election laws, and the stuff that was taken included anything private. This was not simple harvesting of public data, this was hacking of personal accounts via malware in an app.
Do get a sense of perspective.
Cambridge Analystics is in the EU. Different rules. Each profile stolen violates the Data Protection Act and European Human Rights, regardless of where the person was located, because the data was stored in Europe and CA was a European company under European law.
If those 50 million sued, they'd win, because under the DPA your data cannot be transferred from the E.U. to any country with weaker protections.
Furthermore, the U.S. election laws forbid foreign national involvement, violations of the fourth for electioneering and spying on American nationals by US agencies even via third parties.
If this goes to court, the proverbial fan will be crushed under the impact.
In the EU, that doesn't matter. Data protection act.
It includes private data. The app used to take everything.
And, yes, it is a breach. It doesn't matter what you set public, if you operate in the EU (and Cambridge is still in there), you abide by EU Data Protection laws. You are forbidden from collecting personal data without both a license and permission (they had neither) and you are forbidden from reselling it to a nation with weaker data protection laws (the U.S. included).
Every last one of those 50 million can sue Data Analytics. And they should. Even if they're awarded only £100 each, CA will deserve the consequences.
No, Republicans only try to believe that.
Regardless, data theft is a criminal enterprise, conspiracy to defraud is a criminal enterprise, violation of US election laws by involving foreign nationals is a criminal enterprise, government agencies conspiring to defraud the electorate is - essentially - treason, and Cambridge Analytics violated EU data protection laws on top of all that.
Fine, arrest everyone who is guilty of such a crime, throw the lot in a SuperMAX and never let them see the light of day again. Exonerate no-one. If that means incarcerating the entire DNC as well as the GOP and half the intelligence services, who the hell cares? Take the criminals off the streets, every last one of them.
When most celebrities die of an "overdose", what is really meant is the doctor screwed up and prescribed two meds that are known to react badly. It's called an overdose to avoid liability.
Opioid overdose will sometimes fall into that category and sometimes it's a get-rich-quick scheme involving kickbacks and deliberate fraud knowing the patient will die anyway.
Suicide is a third possibility. America has bugger all for mental health, on the pretext that Real Men never need help. Oh, you can spend a lot, and there's lots of Manly therapy where you're given the chance to give a moron lots of money for no help.
Apparently, the solution to everyone being unhappy all the time is to move around lots of green pieces of paper. Which is odd, because on the whole it isn't the little green pieces of paper that are unhappy. See the Guide for details.
There's nothing suspicious about it, there's lots suspicious about paranoid schizophrenics blaming Clinton, the CIA, and so on. These people need help, but Reagan shut down all the hospitals instead of fixing them.
If you want something to get suspicious about, it's the homeless lunatics being armed by the Feds, under a plan currently under review.
The metal can be used for stuff such that the value it contributes exceeds the value of the metal, the crypto coin can't be used for anything.
No problem. You just tell the restaurant owners and customers that the price is prohibitively high because that data centre over there stole all the power. Oh, and baseball bats are 50c each. The marketplace will decide.
The market was the entire point of Marxist economics and Lenin's strategy. So letting the market decide IS a communist state.
This is a case where you're far better off nationalizing. It's not like everyone has a wire to the power company they specifically buy from. Set the price per watt at 1.25x time the estimated power cost of generating the average bitcoin in the next quarter. That way, it's not economic and we can use electricity for useful things like Folding@Home and BOINC.
Voltage regulator. The circuit breakers that exist in the power grid already suffice. Just set the point to pre-spike levels for each district. If the district exceeds that, it gets cut out of the grid.
To combat global warming, we need demand reduced. It's no good producing Starship Enterprise levels of power if everyone is dead.
Ummm, no. Capitalism is not the best of the alternatives. I doubt many on Slashdot know of any alternatives. (Communism is not an alternative, it is a theory of control not currency. Barter is not an alternative, barter is simplified capitalism.)
If you can post ten different alternatives and state, with fallacy-free logic, why they're inferior, I'll accept your claim. If you make no effort, you are implicitly accepting that you really didn't look at any alternatives before posting that.