Technology

37705 readers

122 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

105

How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate artificial intelligence (www.pbs.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an American, its always so encouraging to see the things that come out of the EU

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As an EU citizen, I'm often disappointed how these things are applied. New rules may be fine, but often it takes a really really long time here until the necessary changes take an effect in the real world.

The GDPR is a good example imo. We have it for 5 years now, but even many public authorities still don't comply with it. So I feel that many things are just written on paper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Things take time and citizens to demand their rights but at least with legislation we have that right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t they? It may depend on which MS you live in, but fines for not complying with the GDPR are pretty hefty, and although I agree that at the beginning there was a bit of chaos, things have significantly improved, and things like the right to be forgotten do indeed have a direct impact on our lives!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It seems to get better of late, but slowly. We can get an idea about how GDPR is handled acrosd the EU in the GDPR enforcement tracker or in the GDPR Trap Map. Amongst others, the latter says for example:

Departing from the standard in most procedural laws in Germany, Article 20 of the Bavarian Data Protection Law codifies that a complainant may not get access to the files in a complaints procedure. This means that the data subject is very much limited in effectively challenging wrong arguments by the controller. The provision seems to violate fair procedures rights.

Edit for an addition: There are many sites to check a website's GDPR compliance, e.g. Fathom's, and to find trackers and cookies there is also The Markup's Blacklight. I'm not aware whether these tools are known by everyone already.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's also harder to harmonize a thing such as EU with a lot more heterogenous states than the US. It's still better to move slowly than to not move at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also Rentgen - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rentgen/
"Rentgen illustrates the amount of tracking scripts on a website and helps with formulating an email to the website admin, which can be a basis for a GDPR complaint. "

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

State authorities aren't bound by GDPR. That's something that's explicitly stated in it.