Interesting Links for 27-04-2018

[andrewducker]

Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

(tags: Facebook Europe surveillance privacy )

Secretly Taped Audio Reveals Democratic Leadership Pressuring Progressive to Leave Race

(tags: politics democrats usa )

High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University

(tags: usa trade jobs Education )

Genealogy websites identify rape suspect who eluded police for 40 years

(tags: genetics rape )

How little do lawyers get for prosecuting a crime?

(tags: law money crime uk )

How to win at Question Time

This, by the way, is why I don't watch this kind of tv.
(tags: politics tv uk )

The last man who knew everything

(tags: knowledge writing history )

Sinclair Spectrum designer Rick Dickinson dies

(tags: death computers history uk )

Comments

Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

[jack]

Right, I'd thought that sounded super dodgy. I just don't know if they'll get away with it or not.

Re: Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

[andrewducker]

I'm already looking forward to the court case.

Re: Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

[jack]

I've no idea what's going to happen. If you take privacy seriously, that basically rules out facebook's entire business model. Will they brazen their way through? Will they serve a cut-down version in the EU? Will they find enough loopholes to keep doing what they're doing? Will the EU be able to stand up to them? Or will they suffer a series of fines that they can afford to just accept? I hope they get dealt with! But I don't know.

Ideally they'd start providing a service and letting people pay for it, but I don't expect we'll be that lucky :(

Re: Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

[andrewducker]

I agree with your ideal. Really wish they worked that way and I was the customer.

Re: Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

[danieldwilliam]

I'm looking forward to the fine.

Re: Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

[jack]

"Hello? Yes, do you have some more zeros. What? I don't know, a lot!"

Re: Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

[danieldwilliam]

"You can keep the money, but we'd like Elvis, Ireland and Democracy back, and all your shareholders have to wear body cameras."

Re: Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

[dewline]

Yeah, the resulting legal actions should be entertaining to watch from a distance.

Re: Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

[doug]

I'm already enjoying the flurry of pre-GDPR emails from companies I keep trying to unsubscribe from (and/or thought I had years ago) telling me plaintively that if I don't opt-in they won't be able to keep sending me stuff I don't want. Result.

How little do lawyers get for prosecuting a crime?

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

I seriously recommend The Secret Barrister's book. I think everyone in the country should read it. I knew about the low pay of criminal barristers for years, but I didn't realise just how appallingly run and underfunded the entire criminal justice system is, and that it really only functions at all because so many are willing to do emotionally and intellectually draining work with very long hours for less than minimum wage.

I warn you though that it *will* give you the rage.

[hutchingsmusic]

Re Baring-Gould - I had to leave this comment on the writer's Twitter feed:

How on earth did you manage to write "His most lasting works — The Vicar of Morwenstow and Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets" when this is the guy who wrote the lyrics to ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS?! (and the best-known translation of "The Angel Gabriel from heaven came").

(Neither was even mentioned in the article)