Nobody is really GDPR-ready, however, data privacy law is about being good enough. Yep, there isn’t full compliance ever. Instapaper looks very desperate with its GDPR-lockout of EU users. I guess the EU market is mostly lost …
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In addition, authorities could for example seize local servers in the case of non-compliance. In many EU countries including Germany, data privacy violations can also be prosecuted as criminal offenses.
That’s exactly my experience as a driver:
You learn to anticipate that the ‘autopilot’ will disengage or otherwise fail. I have been good enough at this, obviously, but it is sometimes frightening how close you get to a dangerous situation …
'After June 19th, 2018, streaming services at Twitter will be removed. This means two things for third-party apps:
Push notifications will no longer arrive Timelines won’t refresh automatically'
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 would probably be the right support page, however, Apple mentions what is done – and not what is NOT done, in particular end-to-end-encryption of iCloud backups.
I still agree that Apple plays in a different league than Facebook with regard to privacy. At the same time, there is still a lot to do for Apple, especially regarding data security. Just a current example:
https://www.mac4n6.com/blog/2018/3/30/omg-seriously-apfs-enc...
Anyway, the GSPR does not ban American-style surveillance in Europe. Most European countries have used the Snowden leaks as a blueprint to increase surveillance in almost every aspect, especially online and with many related obligations for Internet companies.
'You can’t collect and store any personal data without having obtained, and being able to document that you obtained, consent from the persons you’re collecting data from.'
Consent is just one option. You can do logging without personal data. You might have a legal obligation do to (full) logging. You might have a legitimate interest. And so one …
It is wrong to summarise the GDPR as 'consent is always necessary'.
In addition, it would be interesting to get a comparison of the resulting purchase price power in the various countries.
https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2017/20171124_2015-macO...
It gets way to hot, more and more features are no longer available through Server.app, and Spotlight on MacOS Server has never been great (at least not better than on an up-to-date Synology NAS these days). Each update was a reason for bad sleep …
Since all the software we were using as local installations moved to SaaS, only file storage and Resilio Sync are left – band oth can be done with a NAS or cloud services like Google Team Drive / Google Drive File Stream. The latter has great reliability and many useful compliance features.
'macOS High Sierra APFS Performance is Inferior to HFS on Apple’s Fastest SSD: all cost, no benefit, at least not yet.'
https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2017/20171124_2015-macO...
I should have known that updating to a new MacOS versions before 6 to 9 months have passed is a mistake. High Sierra is in my experience the buggiest MacOS release so far, not only security-wise. The system is not very stable and APFS reduced drive performance … :(
On the other, it makes me sad that for my business mail, I am stuck with Apple Mail. I miss therefore many important Gmail features, including security-related features. And Apple Mail has still no reliable support for Gmail drafts …