andreagrandi

Why changing the data controller to Google LLC for UK users only then? (ignore the fact that they misunderstood me for a UK resident)

Couldn’t they provide a way to check/edit our personal details so we can set our home address?

UPDATE: I've updated the article removing the "illegal" words. Since it doesn't seem to be clear if this is legal or not from their side, I think it's right to give it the benefit of the doubt. (give CloudFlare a few minutes to update the cache, please)

Note: if anyone thinks I should at least re-phrase the title and the article, I'm more than happy to do that.

My concern is: why do they mention UK leaving EU if I'm not UK citizen? And why there is no way to appeal/complain directly with them?

Mistakes can happen from anyone, but if they don't let me contact them I have no way of fixing this.

We all know that mistakes can happen. That is not the issue. The issue here is that there is no way to contact them and ask to fix this. I tried at least 3 or 4 times to contact them on Twitter (they are replying to other people for other issues, why not replying to me?) but I didn't have any luck with it.

Even the article says I lived in UK/London, it's not a secret, but remains the fact I'm not a UK citizen :/ If US or EU would be the same, why mentioning brexit?

My understanding is that they can "process" it outside, but the "Data Controller" should be a European legal entity. After all, they are not saying "we are moving everyone data to US", they say "we are moving UK customers to US". I don't doubt they can do it, but I'm not a UK customer, that's the point.

That's a good question. I tried to edit my details to check if there is a country to set but there isn't.

What do you mean by "source" ? I haven't "heard" this story somewhere on Internet. I did receive the email where they say they are going to move my data controller to US.

So, is it legal? I'm happy to amend the article if this is the case, but my understanding (when I initially read that UK citizens were loosing some rights being moved to US) is that moving to Google LLC I will have less privacy rights.

According to their email, they think I'm a UK user:

"because the United Kingdom (UK) is leaving the European Union (EU), Google LLC will now be the service provider and the data controller responsible for your information and for complying with applicable privacy laws for UK consumer users"

But I'm not.

I can't say they are doing this intentionally, but it's surely a mistake and there is no way to reach them for a complain.

Thanks, this is useful to know.

Have you read the article? Entirely? If yes, can you please tell me since when ITALY is not part of EU? Thanks

"The German industry was hit by slump in sales in the third and fourth quarters of last year"

Oh really? I asked the shipping time for a Polo (2017 model) and I've been told 160-180 days. I'm not surprised if they don't sell many cars.

My guess is that they are not even interested in taking new customers onboard. Before knowing all of this I was interested in purchasing their most expensive plan but I had a question, so I contacted them. I got an automatic reply saying that they were going to reply in 10 days. Well... after 12 days they hadn't replied yet. I contacted them again on Twitter and they just replied it takes 14 days for non customers. But again, they never replied to my questions, not even after 20 days. Not interested to buy anything anymore at this point.

"Save on compensation due to hiring in lower cost regions" - just NO! Sink it, please!

Unfortunately Signal doesn't have a desktop client (and no, Chrome apps don't count. They will be retired and unsupported too in the near future)

> The obsolete gatekeeping by the AI/ML elites who say "you can't use AI/ML unless you have a PhD/5 years research experience" is one of the things I really hate about the industry.

It's the main reason why I decided to present a talk at the next PyCon Italy, as a very junior data scientist, to inspire other Python developers to learn some practical machine learning. If I could do it (and use it for a work project already) many other people can do (and no, I don't even have a degree in CS, just years of work experience)

If you already use Django and want to expose an API, DRF is a natural choice. Flask is more simple to use, if you have to do simple things. If you need models, access to a database and you don't want to pull third party libraries for things that are normally part of a complete framework, I usually suggest to use Django rather then Flask. This said, Flask remains a nice, light framework and I personally use it for a few services.

Well... Andrew Godwin ( https://twitter.com/andrewgodwin ) works at Eventbrite. I think he doesn't need any introduction :)

For lazy people: he wrote South, Django migrations and he's currently working on Channels.