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His business is too tied to being in Apple's good graces anyway to take him that seriously these days. In the past he's been given access well above a lot of bigger outlets and way above what a blog that size should have especially when most of his social media output is now on mastodon to an audience the fraction of his X size.

All though I would say EU regulation has far more misses than hits, this and forcing Apple to USB-C were great but millions of man hours a year are burned navigating cookie banners on every website and chat control being forced through soon.

So we have two wins on iOS device convenience, not a great trade off for the other overreach.

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> were great but millions of man hours a year are burned navigating cookie banners on every website

Cookie banner are not, in fact, an obligation under GDPR. All you need to do to be GDPR compliant is “not collect and sell data to partners” and call it a day. Cookie banners are a loophole that the EC conceded to an ad industry that is addicted to tracking everyone all the time.

> All you need to do to be GDPR compliant is “not collect and sell data to partners”

Are you asserting that I can log IP addresses in my Apache logs? Seems like no one can give me a straight answer there.

That’s not how the law is structured. You CAN do that no problem but it’s then WHAT you do WITH that which is where the law comes into play. If it’s just for security purposes then there’s no problem I believe.

Of course you can. And you don't need any consent from the user for doing so.

The only thing you need to do is to have some document where you list all the personal information you process and store, for how long and what you do with the said data.

What you cannot do is store data that you don't have a legitimate interest in storing. And this is why you have to document what you do with the data, because if you're not doing anything with it (“I want to store 10 years worth of IP address logs just in case”) then you aren't allowed to (on the opposite “I want to store IP addresses for a month for DDoS protection purpose ” is allowed).

You realize he just famously got in Apple’s “bad graces” this year with his “Something is rotten in Cupertino” post and for the first time in a decade they didn’t make an Apple executive available to be on his post WWDC live show?

Let’s not forget also that the EU first wanted to standardize on micro USB.

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