A billion has to be enough for them to notice it you’d hope ! They also got a €251m and a €91m fine (in 2018 & 2021 iirc on the dates)

Appeal never lodged as far as I can find searching tje Irish high court lists. They lodged appeals against a €90m fine though which started hearing last week, and withdrew an appeal against a 2018 €251m fine

Yeah sorry, €1.2bn was USD $1.3billion at the time and about 1.25bn now, so hardly misleading though.

How about a $1.2 Billion fine ? Would that perhaps be consequential ?

They got hit with that 2 years ago

https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2020/

I just checked, it’s 4% of revenue and apparently Meta has already had a €1.2 Billion fine yes that B is not a typo.

https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2020/

Actually GDPR fines can reach 3% of revenue if i recall my compulsory training correctly. That’s a lot more than $20m for farcebook I would expect

Ok. So I found on announcements at https://community.signalusers.org/ that Signal added obtainium to the download options (due to google delays on releasing through play store). I also got another update notification from Signal app this morning, which went away once I upgraded to the latest version. Could be related ?

I had the same “that’s weird” reaction too. So not just you, would be good to know if it was kosher or a malware. I might have a dig now

I had the same at the same time. I ignored the app request and updated from app store

I wouldnt buy it until after release given the Denuvo probability. I’d hold off until it’s proven to work and doesn’t break for Linux users. Civ6 currently works as both native linux and priton/windows version on my machine, but I know others have had troubles with the native version. If Denuvo prevents proton running the windows version then many linux gamers may have an issue.

I definitely counsel a wait and see approach.

I have bought civ3 through 6, I’m interested but def not committed to 7 and Denuvo and its personal datagathering is a redline no for me.

YMMV

Here’s the link to the previous post with denuvo as a question

https://lemmy.ml/post/21197536

I’d have to go back and find it, but no my recollection was that it was based on an official statement.

Certainly the survey was an official firaxis one.

Yeah previous ones ran fine, however there was a post on here maybe 4 months urging everyone to fill in a survey to convince firaxis not to cut off linux by using a particular anticheat that locks linux out in the new Civ7. I just assumed you were the same guy.

I’d hold off pre-ordering and wait for release as while there are Steam specs like you posted I also found a blurb about a denuvo DRM.

Having said that Steam are pretty good for refunds if stuff doesnt work

Have they abandoned the anti- cheat kernel bollocks that was going to lock out linux users then ?

Got the captcha endless wave yesterday using freetube on linux until I changed VPN nodes. I don’t think it’s proxying (not checked though)

Ethernet over hdmi

https://thehometheaterdiy.com/hdmi-with-ethernet/

https://www.cmple.com/learn/learning-center-hdmi-cables-with-ethernet

They can also hijack the connection of a connected box (ethernet over hdmi) or via a connected phone (bluetooth & chromecast iirc)

At that age cpu it’s almost certainly a hard drive not ssd.

My guess is 1-2 days. 4gb RAM is going to thrash like hell

Simless phones can make emergency calls because the towers are configured to accept a request for an emergency call to any device that handshakes sufficiently (in Europe and most of Asia anyway, I assume also true of USA because it does work).

The phone is able to contact the nearest tower and initiate a call because it scans for the nearest towers in the boot process in order to go to the next step (check sim details and connect to configured provider). In the process of determining available towers it provides the IMEI to each of them.

If you live in a country where you have to provide ID to buy a handset then this definitely isn’t anonymous, but even if you are in a country that doesnt, all the manufacturers track where every IMEI is shipped, and sku numbers on POS will easily allow determination of exactly when the device was sold. Even if you paid cash there will be CCTV footage of the purchase.

TL;DR this will work mostly until you make a mistake against corporate tracking but will absolutely not protect you from three-letter-acronyms and law enforcement.

Consider your threat model carefully before relying on it

It’s not unreasonable to be ignorant. Particularly about technology which most don’t understand

Nope not locked. I have always on vpn (random countries) anti fingerprinting and DDG happily allows the search localisation to my actual or a different country

Doesnt this mean that you’re by default agreeing to the cookies though ? I’ve tested not responding to the pop up on several websites and they all write cookies if you don’t respond

From the article (did you read it ?)

"Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. "

So yeah at least some of them collecting it are then selling it

Clearly states in article owners can’t delete data collected

If “here” is the US, then yeah you do. There are insurers in UK, US and I believe most of western Europe who offer “discounted” insurance in return for fitting a tracking, logging device to the car.

Not really much to say is there ? It sucks.

I’d normally upvote and move on. Upvote to acknowledge that someone posted a useful article. No comment becauae it’s just another nail in the coffin. Nothing new in that.

Mullvad

That depends on your threat model. All lemmy posts are publicly visible and can be scooped up by Farcebook, google et al. Discord is very definitely not properly private but all posts aren’t public. They are undoubtedly doing the same thing FB does and selling a semi anonymised set of meta data about you, but the world doesn’t have direct visibility

I know the three letter acronyms have access to everything I do, hidden or not, I don’t like it but I don’t see anyway around it.

I can however do my level best to keep FB, google, M$ out of my stuff to some extent

I used to use it and it can help. Particularly microsoft websites. It causes audio distortion on some sites though.

office 365 does not work for instance.

Well that’s not true

O365 via the browser works perfectly fine and has done for years. You can’t install windows executable apps if that’s what you meant

Sure but who do you make the subject access request to ? Facebook Google Microsoft Amazon etc individually ?

Techcrunch article is misunderstanding the meaning of freely given. It means not under duress and with full understanding. Paying for a service categorically doesnt contradict that.

However the odds of facebook explaining in plain english the egregious privacy breaches they do is unlikely so there’s prob a get out there anyway.

Can’t see how it breaches consent unless, as above they don’t explain what they’re doing to gather info for “personalised” ads.

Am lawyer, not gdpr /EU specialist though.

Here in the UK Tesco and Sainsburys now give a lower price at the till for loyalty card members

Every time you take your car to be serviced by tge dealer it’s plugged into a diagnostics computer which reads the ECU, with the price of storage it is entirely possible that disabling the cell connection just causes the ECU to write it to local storage for upload at service read. The diagnostics machines are definitely connected to manufacturer servers.

Doing so is trivially easy the telematics is going to be caching before sending, all you need to do is manufacture that cache storage to be large enough (and it’s flatfiles we’re talking megs not gigs) and tell the software not to delete until it has an an acknowledged receipt of transfer.