It will be much more difficult for people to opt out this way and they know it.

This is something called “administrative burden,” which is having to deal with a bunch of red tape and general bullshit to exercise your rights or receive benefits for which you qualify. It’s usually associated with dealing with government programs but it happens a lot in the private sector too.

It does take some effort but you can develop new hire onboarding, training, and mentorship programs that work in a remote setting and/or where everyone isn’t co-located. You have to have a checklist with timelines and specific things to fill out. My company did it.

The fact that these videos are big on TikTok is also old news, this has been a thing for a few weeks at least.

This is old news, these videos have been around for a while, and it’s on the manufacturers of Kias and Hyundais for cutting corners and not including anti-theft measures that come standard in every other car.

Why “TikTok” when it’s, like, “social media?” Is it because TikTok is what the kids are into these days? Or because it’s (gasp) from China?

Sure, whatever floats your boat I guess.

> Also very coincidental that the union had the statement prepared beforehand, but sure.

Union organizers getting fired for “unrelated” reasons is as old as unions themselves. So of course the union has prepared statements ready to go for situations like this - almost any union does. It’s like having a fire extinguisher in your kitchen.

There have been a lot of posts asking more or less the same question in this sub in the past few days.

Service providers are also supposed to make sure that their services are running with configurations appropriate to geographical/jurisdictional restrictions as dictated by statutes (or not running, as appropriate).

I am once again asking why some people post stuff on this sub just to start fights.

Or reading certain people posting on this sub TBH

Yes they are. Who do you think Google Analytics belongs to? It’s not like it’s a different company that happens to have a similar name.

And they keep having problems because users in EU countries where Google Analytics is banned keep finding the Google Analytics script running in their browsers anyway because Google is not err on the side of caution when it comes to what browser clients Google Analytics does and doesn’t run on.

> Even in the EU they don’t achieve 100% compliance all the time.

I mentioned that earlier.

You keep finding new ways to tell me about how our our privacy regulations aren’t effective.

In practice, none of this really helps and there is no rigorous monitoring of compliance with it or consequences to violations of it. If there were, credit bureaus would no longer be a viable business model and some kind of public agency would have to perform the function instead.

So you have to go hunting for settings somewhere and be presented with choices that may or may not be easy to interpret in order to opt out, instead of being automatically protected? Or having the option of not letting these entities collect your data in the first place?

Also, what happens if they violate these statutes? Not enough to keep them from doing it again.

> Google Analytics is banned in Germany and Italy.

Alas, Google violates this all the time and gets only relatively light fines as punishment. If what TikTok is supposedly doing is bad enough to get them banned in the U.S. then EU countries might decide that taking extreme measures is the way to go.

>Also, the US’ patchwork isn’t far off from GDPR, it’s just far less cohesive. US citizens have many of the same rights and control over their data, and have for decades in some cases.

Functionally, no. You don’t really have a choice when it comes to, say, the information that credit bureaus collect about you, because you can’t opt out, and they will up and sell that to anyone. They also don’t secure their databases that well.

Well, my memory is not great. But I’m pretty sure, not even once, not even a little bit.

Before COVID I, a lady person, would frequently commute into the city all by myself via public transportation for work, and I never got murdered.

Gonna be really funny when EU countries get the idea to ban Meta and Twitter and the like because, since they are based in a country (America) with terrible laws around privacy and personal data collection, they pose unacceptable risks to EU citizens/national security.

Oh I have heard of cops doing that stuff. I think a lot of adults would balk at it but it’s easy to get a kid to just go along with it.

There are use cases where biometrics are appropriate but, like, not for a sandwich shop.

I don’t do it for school boards. You already stepped in it pretty good. You should stop now.

> Let me put it this way, the hedge fund no doubt hired qualified IT specialists who know much more than you and get paid much more than you to handle their security

I am one of those kinds of specialists and I get paid pretty well LOL

Something like that. They just shouldn’t let it near the financial and transaction records or correspondence.