I mean, if they are then you should be rooting for them. Your living conditions would skyrocket under Chinese hegemony

What are the Chinese going to do to you with your data Vs say the tech firm selling your data to insurance companies?

It’s still a uk thing. I was the GDPR officer for our company when it was introduced and as far as I know it hasn’t been repealed in UK law yet.

Edit: Looking into it further it appears that we now have a UK GDPR law which is essentially the same thing and is in lockstep with the EU version.

GDPR, go gettem.

You cannot share customer data with third parties without explicit consent. It has to be clearly labelled and not hidden in T&Cs

My girlfriend and her sister are like this. I’m travelling with them and sharing a hotel room and the pair of them can spend and hour and a half each shitting. It’s very impressive. I’m fortunate that I’m constipated as fuck otherwise I’d have probably shit myself in desperation by now.

I’ve done this. Fuck I love solder

Yeah. It’s amazing how my windows laptop, whilst sleeping, whirrs all its fans up on the middle of the night. I am not suggesting that is it sending out telemetry, but it is fucking infuriating for sleep to mean anything other than “stop doing anything until I tell you to wake up”.

Oh shoot

Now it just needs to stop forcing windows 11 on windows 10 users