"He failed to properly disclose", that's one way of saying that he bareface lied.
Its OK though he's going to pay some of it himself so that the tax payer only has to cough up £8k.
He should be forced to pay it all and sacked.
If the EU could force them to allow us to fully disable tracking as well, that would be great.
If privacy and security are your top priorities, which it sounds like they are, and you want a performance similar to OnePlus 8, go with the Google Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS. It's more aligned with your need for strong app sandboxing and convenient Google services integration, etc.
This is Microsoft... What's the catch?
This is great, but let's be honest it should be Scotland wide. Where I live this is ridiculously common, they get half the car or more on the pavement, stick on their hazard lights and seem to think that's OK.
One more thing, the fine isn't high enough in my opinion. There will still be people that'll carry on parking like this because they justify it somehow. Looking at you Aberdeen Range Rover mob.
I have fond memories of the Internet 20-25 years ago.
How did it turn into this much of a mess? Social Media, SEO, adverts, data mining, profiling, privacy nightmares... what a shit show.
These are definitely an improvement over the current icons but while some of the design rules are evident, i think a bit of refining is in order.
The games and download folders both need a complete redesign as the ignore the design rules that the other folders use, and why are the symbols on each folder white except for the Mac folder?
Morning,
Another Brit here. I went through something like this...
Moved emails from Microsoft and Google to a provider like Proton, Tutanota or Mailbox.org.
Degoogled mobile by moving to LineageOS and replaced apps with FOSS equivalents. Use the likes of Mull, K9 Mail, Aegis, etc.
Started using Signal instead of WhatsApp, SMS and Telegram, etc. Persuading friends and family to install it can be a challenge but stick with it.
Implemented Pihole and unbound to minimise adverts and tracking. Blocked access to the internet for smart home devices (they were in the house when we bought it).
After it came out that MI5 had been working with BT to spy on internet users I started using a VPN almost permanently, then on mobile too (after I discovered EE heavily monitor all mobile data usage). Look at Proton or Mullvad for VPN. I also moved to a small ISP recently after EE took over Plusnet. Maybe look at the likes of Zen and avoid the bigger ISPs.
This isn't for everyone and I'm not going to be one of those that preach to do it but I got shot of MS Windows and jumped into Linux. I still have a Windows 10 VM for apps I can't get to run under Linux. Initially though I used the likes of Windows 10 Privacy or O&O Shutup to disable as much of the crap I wasn't happy with and O&O AppBuster to remove built in apps I didn't want. I used simplwall to control what app had network access too.
When i eventually got around to changing email addresses for online accounts, I setup temp and burner adddresses (look at Simplelogin or anonaddy). I share my actual email with trusted sources only.
I never use my real personal details for any service, online or otherwise, other than official ones, government, banking, etc.
Bought a little secondhand NAS for the house that I run Jellyfin from to stream music and movies. Cancelled Spotify. Also cancelled Sky and got a freesat box.
Avoid car insurance companies that demand you have a black box. I've only been pressure once into having one and I've been driving for a while now.
If you want to mimimise your bank or online shops profiling you, shop in physical stores and pay with cash. Extreme maybe but I know people that do this.
Finally whilst not explicitly part of my privacy journey, that journey ended up influencing my decision when it came to changing my car. The previous one was newer with lots of connected services, and as I discovered terrible privacy and data sharing policies. The current one is older with the only connected service being the tracker. Like I say, not part of my privacy journey but once I got into that way of thinking, it influenced my decision.
Microsoft has openly encouraged piracy as far back as the 90s. I remember an interview with Gates where he said as much.
This has been part of Microsoft's business model, especially for Windows and Office for 30 years. They actively encouraged pirating the software to ensure it cemented itself as the defacto standard in homes and offices with a view that one day users would have no choice but pay for it. For over 20 years now this has been part of the bigger desktop-as-a-service goal.
Soon businesses and home users will have no choice but to remotely log into a Windows system that is hosted in a datacentre and provided by Microsoft or one of their partners. Local installs will be a thing of the past. Think Citrix Presentation Server and thin clients which is where this whole idea started a long time ago.
GDPR clearly states you can contact any part of the organisation with your request. You can make your request verbally or in writing and they must acknowledge it. They can't refuse and make you use their app.
For fun send them a Subject Access Request and if they don't acknowledge it, report them to the ICO (if you're in the UK)
The biggest thing for me with these two which makes KDE the better DE is that with Gnome I have to change the way I work, with KDE I change it to the way I work. That's what it all boils down to for me.
I get the distinct feeling that the EU will have something to say about a US tech giant baking spyware into web browser that EU citizens use.