It already exists. Its called GDPR despite what you think, it is global. This company is subject to GDPR.
However, as I have pointed out in other comments, this summary and article is highly inaccurate. These are standard anti-fraud measures banks have been doing for decades. What is analyzed is the transaction, not the individual.
If you didn't have these protections then online fraud and all credit card fraud (online and off) would go through the roof as would all of your banking fees.
GDPR does not give you access to this data in Europe because it is not personally identifying information.
Once again, these are standard anti-fraud measures banks have been doing for decades. The fact the OP just discovered how banking works doesn't make it some vast invasion of privacy.
It is in fact very clearly outlined in the service agreements for Alexa - JUST AS IT IS FOR Siri (Apple), Google (Assistant) Microsoft (Cortana). It is also very clearly labeled how to opt-out, although it will out of necessity make your experience WORSE because if recordings can't be learnt from then the service will go nowhere.
... this looks like standard anti-fraud measures that banks and retail have been doing for years and years and years. It's not creating a profile of YOU, its creating a profile of YOUR CARD so it can detect if it's been compromised.
You could apply for, and receive, *.jythie if you want.
Why? Because its a money making scheme, that's why. gTLDs force companies down this path where they either try to protect their trademark or have it trampled over. In return registrars generate millions of dollars registering gTLDs that aren't even used
Thats far from true. A number of Fortune 100 companies use Slack. In fact I know of a Fortune 50 company with over 300,000 employees who uses Slack company-wide.
Yes it is true that AWS is used by many public sites, some with millions of users. Netflix is an example everyone always points to.
However when you REALLY get into things what you will learn is there is a huge, huge difference between running a public website for millions of users, and an Enterprise back office workload. The per user stat is meaningless because one workload is mostly lightweight web tier and the other is a heavy duty number crunching back office application.
Companies like Lyft are not deciding to spend billions of dollars building their own cloud to move off AWS, because it is fun. It's because AWS is honestly not that great at Enterprise scale workloads, and it costs a metric fortune to do said things on it.
- Google already does "Tier 1" as you have it above.
- The purpose of AV apps on Android is to protect you when you allow sideloading. If you use the Amazon app store, or the Aptoide app store, or want Fortnite, then you have to allow sideloading. Enabling sideloading opens up more possibility for attack vectors, especially if it is chained with another bug in Chrome or Firefox to let a web page silently install an app somehow. The way they work is they insert themselves as a new app install handler (Android allows this). Before the sideloaded APK is opened, it is scanned by the AV app.
The leaks nowadays are near zero. Nearly all microservice delivered applications are written in NodeJS, Go, or Python. None of these languages care what architecture you're running on, and as a developer no one is writing architecture-specific code.
Even if you're doing high performance machine learning, the libraries you're using are likely Python based, and hide away the iron and GPU types from you to a very large level.
Linus seems to be forgetting about the massive shift in software development that has occured, to consuming software as container-based microservices, and providing it as the same.
No one cares what architecture Redis is running on, as long as the service provides the same API contract and can be consumed by existing code. X86, ARM, Power, no one cares - run it where it performs the best at the lowest cost, thanks.
The same is true of all of the other microservices that you consume, and all of the microservices you provide that make up your software. As long as you can deliver the container targeted to that architecture, no one will care.
There is a lot of difference between a blockchain consortium among a fixed set of semi-trusted parties, and a centralized database.
In the former, the parties trust each other, but only as far as they can throw each other. The network is full of competitors and those who could see substantial if fraudulent transactions could occur in their favour.
This is why Blockchain has a large advantage over a central database for this kind of scenario - not only are all the transactions on the chain and immutable, the code that operates the chain, is on the chain itself - which means that all parties on the chain have to agree to any code changes around the transactions, which means they know no one is messing with anything without everyone else knowing about it. You can't do this kind of scenario with a central database.
Sorry but the days of me paying $40, $30, or even $20 / month for you to stream ads in my face every 15 minutes, just so I can have "live" TV, are long, long gone. If you're going to show me ads, the service better be free. If I am paying, there better be no ads.
As an aside - my daughter is 4 years old now and except when we're outside the house, shes never seen a TV ad in her life. When she sees them interrupt her shows, they really throw her for a loop and she gets upset. As she should, really. This trend is spreading, It's the exact same for every toddler in every household I know.
We're now raising a generation on Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, who are not used to having ads thrown in their face anymore, and are not going to put up with it as they age - and I can't wait.
The fact that Stallman seems to have no sweet clue how the software on smartphones work, or that it is trivially possible to be 100% under your own control - including nowadays all the way to the modem firmware if you really want - makes me seriously wonder about him. Criminals have figured this out as a matter of course, you would think that for someone as supposedly smart as Stallman it would be simple.
He is SUPPOSED to be someone who is keeping pace with the industry and technology, but he has to ask people how cell phones work - and seemlingly gets the wrong answers?
This summary is mind boggling and makes me think he has really fallen off the deep end.
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It already exists. Its called GDPR despite what you think, it is global. This company is subject to GDPR.
However, as I have pointed out in other comments, this summary and article is highly inaccurate. These are standard anti-fraud measures banks have been doing for decades. What is analyzed is the transaction, not the individual.
If you didn't have these protections then online fraud and all credit card fraud (online and off) would go through the roof as would all of your banking fees.
It used to be that critical thinkers judged stories and their summaries before they were posted to see if they were accurate.
Nowadays anything with clickbait gets posted since it drives ad revenue.
False.
GDPR does not give you access to this data in Europe because it is not personally identifying information.
Once again, these are standard anti-fraud measures banks have been doing for decades. The fact the OP just discovered how banking works doesn't make it some vast invasion of privacy.
"something not mentioned in Echo's terms of service or FAQ pages."
Actually, it is.
It is also in the TOS and FAQ for Cortana, for Google, for Siri. It is how these services work.
It is also easy to opt out, although that will make your experience suck because then the system can't learn about you.
Except the summary is patently false.
It is in fact very clearly outlined in the service agreements for Alexa - JUST AS IT IS FOR Siri (Apple), Google (Assistant) Microsoft (Cortana). It is also very clearly labeled how to opt-out, although it will out of necessity make your experience WORSE because if recordings can't be learnt from then the service will go nowhere.
Incorrect again.
The data was not "collected and sold" to Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica collected the data, DIRECTLY, using APIs available to them at the time. Facebook did not "collect and sell" the data.
Facebook actually does not sell bulk data, at all.
... this looks like standard anti-fraud measures that banks and retail have been doing for years and years and years. It's not creating a profile of YOU, its creating a profile of YOUR CARD so it can detect if it's been compromised.
IE - you definitely want this.
Nothing to see here.
Anyone can have a gTLD.
You could apply for, and receive, *.jythie if you want.
Why? Because its a money making scheme, that's why. gTLDs force companies down this path where they either try to protect their trademark or have it trampled over. In return registrars generate millions of dollars registering gTLDs that aren't even used
Thats far from true. A number of Fortune 100 companies use Slack. In fact I know of a Fortune 50 company with over 300,000 employees who uses Slack company-wide.
IBM.
Yes it is true that AWS is used by many public sites, some with millions of users. Netflix is an example everyone always points to.
However when you REALLY get into things what you will learn is there is a huge, huge difference between running a public website for millions of users, and an Enterprise back office workload. The per user stat is meaningless because one workload is mostly lightweight web tier and the other is a heavy duty number crunching back office application.
Companies like Lyft are not deciding to spend billions of dollars building their own cloud to move off AWS, because it is fun. It's because AWS is honestly not that great at Enterprise scale workloads, and it costs a metric fortune to do said things on it.
IBM Cloud Object Storage is price competitive with AWS, even cheaper for many workloads.
https://www.slideshare.net/mob...
You talk about Elastic like it is some kind of altruistic charity. It's a 6+ billion dollar company.
Trust me, all of the developers get paid, handsomely.
Yeah, because the iTunes store is not also full of shitware...
Have you ever tried searching for "Flashlight" on iTunes? How many apps are there? Tons of them are loaded with ads.
Its the same Junkware on Apple store as Google store.
- Google already does "Tier 1" as you have it above.
- The purpose of AV apps on Android is to protect you when you allow sideloading. If you use the Amazon app store, or the Aptoide app store, or want Fortnite, then you have to allow sideloading. Enabling sideloading opens up more possibility for attack vectors, especially if it is chained with another bug in Chrome or Firefox to let a web page silently install an app somehow. The way they work is they insert themselves as a new app install handler (Android allows this). Before the sideloaded APK is opened, it is scanned by the AV app.
The leaks nowadays are near zero. Nearly all microservice delivered applications are written in NodeJS, Go, or Python. None of these languages care what architecture you're running on, and as a developer no one is writing architecture-specific code.
Even if you're doing high performance machine learning, the libraries you're using are likely Python based, and hide away the iron and GPU types from you to a very large level.
Linus seems to be forgetting about the massive shift in software development that has occured, to consuming software as container-based microservices, and providing it as the same.
No one cares what architecture Redis is running on, as long as the service provides the same API contract and can be consumed by existing code. X86, ARM, Power, no one cares - run it where it performs the best at the lowest cost, thanks.
The same is true of all of the other microservices that you consume, and all of the microservices you provide that make up your software. As long as you can deliver the container targeted to that architecture, no one will care.
IBM is buying RedHat for $34 billion.
2018 RHAT revenue was $2.9 billion. Canonical last year had revenues of $125.97 million. That's a 20x multiple.
The market share follows a similar trend.
I wish I was "losing" by having a 20x multiple.
This.
Garbage code is garbage code, and has very very little, if anything, to do with the language it is written in.
It is just as easy to write garbage C++ as it is garbage python - perhaps even easier.
Chrome lets you sync your passwords to the cloud. They are encrypted with your Google account password, Google can't read them.
They can already do all of those things today. This system is still many orders of magnitude faster and saves a lot of money.
You're tilting at windmills here.
There is a lot of difference between a blockchain consortium among a fixed set of semi-trusted parties, and a centralized database.
In the former, the parties trust each other, but only as far as they can throw each other. The network is full of competitors and those who could see substantial if fraudulent transactions could occur in their favour.
This is why Blockchain has a large advantage over a central database for this kind of scenario - not only are all the transactions on the chain and immutable, the code that operates the chain, is on the chain itself - which means that all parties on the chain have to agree to any code changes around the transactions, which means they know no one is messing with anything without everyone else knowing about it. You can't do this kind of scenario with a central database.
Unless your employer pays you in Bitcoin and your power utility and mortgage provider accepts bitcoin, you're using an exchange at some point.
Sorry but the days of me paying $40, $30, or even $20 / month for you to stream ads in my face every 15 minutes, just so I can have "live" TV, are long, long gone. If you're going to show me ads, the service better be free. If I am paying, there better be no ads.
As an aside - my daughter is 4 years old now and except when we're outside the house, shes never seen a TV ad in her life. When she sees them interrupt her shows, they really throw her for a loop and she gets upset. As she should, really. This trend is spreading, It's the exact same for every toddler in every household I know.
We're now raising a generation on Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, who are not used to having ads thrown in their face anymore, and are not going to put up with it as they age - and I can't wait.
The fact that Stallman seems to have no sweet clue how the software on smartphones work, or that it is trivially possible to be 100% under your own control - including nowadays all the way to the modem firmware if you really want - makes me seriously wonder about him. Criminals have figured this out as a matter of course, you would think that for someone as supposedly smart as Stallman it would be simple.
He is SUPPOSED to be someone who is keeping pace with the industry and technology, but he has to ask people how cell phones work - and seemlingly gets the wrong answers?
This summary is mind boggling and makes me think he has really fallen off the deep end.