If the company puts up a sign notifying that there are cameras on the premises then under Article 6.1(f) https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/ it is allowed due to “legitimate interest” in deterring crime, securing premises, promoting general safety. This could be argued in a court that it fails the balancing test and that they could and should use more narrow means of collection but the way the courts have ruled I don’t think you’d win that case. Although to be fair the EU doesn’t use common law or case law for decisions so it could be up to the particular judge.

Going back to the article though, if a person with the glasses is filming for “purely personal or household activity,” the entire GDPR is exempt under Article 2(2)© https://gdpr-info.eu/art-2-gdpr/

GDPR regulates the data and the processing, not the act of filming or the expectation of privacy for an exempt usage. If they decide to sell this on a creeper site that is different but I wouldn’t look to GDPR to be the primary legal framework for this being explicitly illegal. The actions under original article would more directly be a violation of multiple other national laws like Germany’s “KunstURHG” and France’s “Droit à l’image”

ITT: People uncritically reading Ukrainian state propaganda saying the same thing it has been saying since the beginning of the war and has to say in order to maintain its funding sources and willing partners.

Look I’m not just a ml who loves Russia, I am just someone who reads a story like this and sees it for what it is- state propaganda saying state propaganda. It is pretty funnysad the same people who will cheer this article will look at RT and scream about how it is Ruzzian state lies.

This is a war. You can’t trust either sides propaganda. This is not independent, not verified and not really journalism

Social interaction is enjoyable and a requirement for a social species. The fact that so many people in this thread are depressed, dejected and lonely is really sad. Despair is not a sustainable life strategy. Please if you are unable to find joy in social interaction find a community you do enjoy and start to be a part of that because the alternative is withering and death.

If you just ate vegetables and beans then Mexican food wouldn’t do this to you.

Congrats on having an absolutely brain dead take

I love my Dolphin Mini and I would never buy enshittified garbage out the factory American car.

You can track the changes on its github https://github.com/microsoftdocs

It is an encrypted file using AES-256 so unless your threat model is state actors dedicating a data center to brute forcing it, it’s probably ok mostly anywhere.

Thank you for the correction I can’t believe I slipped

They should tear down all of Washington DC and give the land back to the Algonquin Nacotchtank

There is no whataboutism. You are reading something that isn’t present. I agree data centers are bad, I am vegan, I believe that you are the ones missing the point by getting angry about datacenters but not doing all you can to actually make a difference. At no point was I defending datacenters, I’m saying that since you care about the water usage of datacenters you also have an obligation to go vegan and you should, immediately. You would do more to help the environment and the animals.

If you live in a rural area… in the USA

Rural areas where I lived in Mexico are walkable/bikable and most people get to the city an hour or so away with a shuttle that goes back and forth to the village. Our rural model is different and better where all the people live close in a small town or village area that has all the stuff to do and grocery stores and the crop fields, ranches, and orchards spread out radially from there.

I agree both are bad. That is why you should be vegan. “At least we get food out of it” the food is bad for you and the environment and tortures living, feeling, sentient beings. You should absolutely stop this ASAP if you are that concerned about the environment.

No one is defending them. Both are bad and you should stop eating meat if you are going to be using this as an excuse to be against data centers. Factory farms produce waste that give people cancer and destroy the environment. Optional animal agriculture causes 15% of all global emissions. You can stop today. Defending animal ag is honestly disgusting.

CAFO “Factory Farms” in Minnesota used 2.3 billion gallons of water in 2017 and the number is going up

A typical Hog CAFO uses 5-10 million gallons per month, every month, all year long.

Dairy CAFOS use 10-20 million.

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11365/ https://www.elpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MI-CAFO-Report-Section-1-ELPC.pdf

In Georgia where this data center is they have hundreds of these farms which not only drain the local aquifers but create shit lagoons that pollute mostly black neighborhoods.

It is the height of hypocrisy to complain about datacenters and support animal agriculture which is unnecessary.

Aside from their nuclear capability

That is a hell of an aside.

Most Americans own their home btw https://www.rubyhome.com/blog/homeownership-stats/ the US capitalist empire still exploits the rest of the world and has vassal states in their hemisphere and abroad that they have financialized and steal their profits.

Crushing cockroaches is a great way to spread its eggs and have more cockroaches in the future. Spray them with soapy water instead.

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I mean it isn’t being a douche, this fact motivated me to set 15 minutes aside a day because now I know I can get to the books I want to read in a reasonable amount of time and helped combat sunk cost feelings when I start something.