Mark Richards @markalanrichards@librem.one

Most UK local government councils are sharing personal data with advertisers, some for profit
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/11/96-of-councils-found-to-hand-over-users-data-to-marketing-firms/

Pre-checked cookie consent unlawful
https://thecloudlawyer.net/2019/10/16/are-your-cookies-from-planet-49/

opt-out consent is newspeak.
Consent is an act to agree to a future event.
In many websites, cookies are already sent by the time you see the opt-out, so if much of the cookie consent mechanisms were applied to sex; then we'd be calling it rape.

Privacy Badger complaining on the privacy regulator's site

British privacy regulator (ICO) breaches privacy (again)
https://markalanrichards.com/2019/10/08/British-privacy-regulator-breaches-privacy.html

Typical software development

@vascorsd typed or untyped?

UK remainers and privacy conscious leavers might want to contact the Brexit Party to stop them from profiling them.
https://www.thebrexitparty.org/privacy-policy/
"The Brexit Party aim to create and maintain a profile for each registered voter in the UK. "
" If you wish, you can ask us not to maintain a profile in your name using the contact details above and we will take steps to remove you from our systems."

Firefox: Leave my DNS alone https://markalanrichards.com/2019/09/14/firefox-leave-my-dns-alone.html
@mozilla

I made a microservice for clustered scheduling. Probably done before, built on quartz, interested in thoughts https://github.com/markalanrichards/micro-scheduler #java

@purism I hope the successes by the organisations involved, in explaining the problems to legislators, can be retried in other jurisdictions, not just in the USA but internationally too. Even in the EU, GDPR and ePrivacy offer little protections for consumers: sure a tiny percentage of complaints result in fines, but there's little if any compensation.