Been following them for years. They do great work, but often seem a little overly optimistic in their messaging. What they are doing is a hard challenge and they seem to be slowly getting better and better. I wonder if they also are lacking a bit in funding to be able to efficiently move forward.
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The DPC is about to hire a former meta lobbyist to lead their organisation. They can obviously not be trusted to uphold EUs privacy laws.
Yep, plus a bunch of AI generated music (or music they bought from producers for cheap onetime fees) that Spotify throws in there so they don't have to pay actual artists.
It's in the article.
Of their $291M in revenue, they reported a gross profit of $258M and an operating profit of $15.5M.
Bias lightning (proper white light) is actually helpful with led displays. It increases perceived contrast (i also think it helps with blooming a bit). Not needed for OLEDs though and coloured lights is more of a gimmick.
Red Hat probably contributes to Open Source and Linux more than any other company around. Are they perfect? Of course not, and it's fair and good to discuss and criticise them when warranted. But overall they seem to contribute positively much more than negatively.
How are they "doing its damnedest to consolidate as much power for themselves within the Linux ecosystem." exactly ?
noyb has really done amazing work the last many years. They specialize especially in GDPR law and Schrems II (Max Schrems is the founder).
EDRi is another organisation doing a lot of good work in digital rights. They fight against chat control and such which is an area noyb is not so active.
These are the best EU based organisations to support imo. EFF does good work too, but a lot of that outside EU.
Fair, I was not aware of that exception. It does seem to cover this case, assuming Google is actually not sending any data outside of the phone, use it for further training etc.
The person owning the phone where the processing takes place, is the processor of the data in this case. That still requires consent from the data subject per gdpr.
In many places call recording (or indeed processing of personal information which is highly likely to be present in phone calls) requires consent to be legal. I highly doubt this kind of processing is legal in the EU without both parties consenting.
S10e is great. It's what I've been using as well, but it doesn't get security updates anymore. Been using a custom rom which does get Android security updates, but there was a pretty serious SoC level security vulnerability which won't get fixed for the S10e.
I'll get a Pixel 8a instead. No headphone jack, slightly larger, only 1 physical sim. But can run GrapheneOS and have a long promised update period.
What's the source for this programme scoring individuals ? Per the EU project description, the target is specifically communities at large rather than individuals.