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mnkypeteon GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

I'm not sure what else I should reply to something like your comment before tbh. Neither can I predict the future, nor am I a lawyer. I'm just posting about my opinion, which I got by gathering information online and from consulting with a lawyer. I've stated the conclusion I've come to, based on this information and yes, I believe that to be correct (or as correct as one can be about a law with no reference cases in court yet).

I was just pointing out, that when a lawyer says "probably", he usually has a good reason to do so. And it's my strong belief that the reference cases in court will not be fought by small companies, because they rarely are.. There is just not enough money to make fit the effort you need to put in winning the first case. Before there is not one single case, I don't think it's necessary to panic and shut everyone out.

You don't need to believe me or agree with me, but reducing this to "my personal appetite for risk" is really weird.

mnkypeteon GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

Just a personal risk I'm willing to take. I don't think they'll come for the small fish first.

mnkypeteon GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

I have an actual business, thank you. And I did my homework by talking to a lawyer about it. What I got from this talk is, that most of the stuff that is going around is pure panic mode.

Please, don't take my words as granted but talk to an actual lawyer. You'll probably even find a free session for startups somewhere in your city, at least in Europe.

mnkypeteon GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

No - you cannot ignore it when you are a small company that's true. But you can (probably, we'll see) ignore it if you don't do shady shit with your customer data. You are allowed to process data, if it's used to fulfill the service you provide. That's reasonable, and probably applies to most of what OP is doing.

mnkypeteon GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

The thing is, he can't say anything else. There are no reference cases in court yet, so it will need to be decided what is actually true.

However, this cases will be fought with the Googles & Facebooks, not with 5 person companies.

mnkypeteon GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

Under the GDPR, you must appoint a DPO if:

you are a public authority (except for courts acting in their judicial capacity); your core activities require large scale, regular and systematic monitoring of individuals (for example, online behaviour tracking); or your core activities consist of large scale processing of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences.

So - no?

mnkypeteon GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

Sure, feel free to "leave", really, no offense. We talked to a lawyer in Germany regarding this (we are a small software company with 5 people). His response was: If you don't do shady shit with customer data, you'll probably don't have to worry. Also, if you are in a "contractual agreement" (e.g. EULA), you can apparently justify most data collection without any change at all.

mnkypeteon GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

There is so much misconception about GDPR. It is cleary directed at large data-tracking corps, not single person IM apps. Even if someone tries to "sue" you (which he can't, only report you to authorities), it first needs to go through many iterations where you can make your case.

At the very least read this: https://privacylawblog.fieldfisher.com/2016/what-you-think-y...

mnkypeteon Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand

Um.. I'm not sure the article author is familiar with the fact that "Skype for business" (the "complex" one) is actually home grown and was just rebranded from Lync. This is not at all the same as the consumer Skype, which actually tries to be a weird mixup between Snapchat and whatnot at the moment (failing utterly of course). Skype for Business (+ PSTN calling) is actually pretty great on Office 365 tbh...

mnkypeteon React Native at Instagram

I mean, the Instagram App is also available on Windows, with almost all features as the iOS/Android counterparts. So I'm not sure, maybe they are already using that as well?

mnkypeteon First they came for the Iranians

It hurts so much to read stories like this, where politics stands in the way of education, especially when the university already approved.

Have you thought about coming to Germany? Not the US, but not bad either..

https://www.daad.de/deutschland/stipendium/en/

mnkypeteon New seat alert app for pregnant commuters

Yeah, I could picture that.. True.. Not really often in London, but riding the Underground wasn't something you'd do for fun..

mnkypeteon New seat alert app for pregnant commuters

Not to be that guy, but what happened to being a decent human being and just getting up for pregnant women and elderly people? Do we really need an app for that now?

As a founder I really do see lot's of value in technology to drive our society forwards, but I just can't wrap my head around some stuff..

mnkypeteon World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind

Potentially relevant, with much less moving parts: A bigger kind of "Hubspeicherkraftwerk" (not sure about the english name, wikipedia does not offer one ;)) - carve out a large cylindrical block of a mountain and pump water below.

http://www.spektrum.de/news/ein-granitblock-voller-energie/1...

(In German, though the pictures should be enough)

mnkypeteon Show HN: FAQ.camp – a FAQ builder with functions to optimize your FAQ

This is a great idea. We are already using Zendesk for our main product, but I could see me using that for side projects, as it's much less bloat!

mnkypeteon Show HN: A free open source timetracker made with the Polymer Framework

That looks really cool, especially the use of offline storage, so you can get started without registering first.

Are there plans to do a registration afterwards and save the times online?

mnkypeteon The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses

That's what we do. Everything else is just lying to yourself and hoping for the best..

mnkypeteon The United Nations has a radical, dangerous vision for the future of the Web

Because there is only two possibilities? I don't think it should be necessary (or desirable) to get comfortable with harassment... It should neither be necessary to cross-check EVERY single post or comment someone writes, I personally see A LOT of middle ground between these two options ... One could think of:

- Calling out harassment / reporting it

- A better education regarding stuff like that (yes, this is an offline-first problem, only amplified trough anonymity)

mnkypeteon [dead]

Now dropping a lot of connections, status looks not good..

mnkypeteon CefSharp – Embedded Chromium for .NET

Alternative, which works pretty well: http://xilium.bitbucket.org/cefglue/

mnkypeteon Don't test with SQLite when you use Postgres in Production

Starting Postgres locally for unit testing is quite easy and done with a few commands (e.g. Powershell)

https://gist.github.com/tobiasviehweger/cbfd9a1a55bff0862f9e

mnkypeteon Dear Paul

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programme...

mnkypeteon Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail

Yeah, unfortunately it's Windows only atm. Outlook API's on Mac are basically non-existent, so we are having a hard time bridging these :/

mnkypeteon Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail

Some marketing: We are actually providing a Javascript wrapper for most of the official Outlook API, much more fully featured (incl. ribbons): http://developer.yasoon.com/

mnkypeteon Next Chapter

I find this pretty troubling, it really does seem the denial is still active. I have no insight into the talks between io.js and node.js, but I think the official communication should be a lot more positive regarding io.js. We'll see how everything will turn out.

mnkypeteon “DBus is seriously screwed up”

It is still working very well indeed. I was recently trying to add photos to iCloud programmatically on Windows. Guess what, there is a COM interface for that.

https://gist.github.com/tobiasviehweger/7a302b7179efb99082d8

mnkypeteon WhatsApp REST API

Personally, I'd really love an official API, heck I would even pay a little to use it. I'm not sure why they won't open it up to business, so many cool things could be built.

I recently worked with WhatsAPI (1), my guess is, they are also using this or similar.

1 - https://github.com/mgp25/WhatsAPI-Official

mnkypeteon Apple Watch Review – A Day in the Life

Whatever your opinion on the watch might be, the review is just beautiful.

mnkypeteon Microsoft Band now available on Amazon

The SDK to access the sensors was released last month: http://developer.microsoftband.com/

mnkypeteon The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js

There is also a quick way to start a new application with Atom: https://github.com/atom/atom-shell-starter