I'd be surprised if this isn't about data residency and gdpr. As someone using the headphones you may end up becoming a "data processor" in gdpr-legal terms.
You've not given the person being recorded any way to exercise their legal rights around collecting, inspecting and deleting their data.
GDPR is about collection and processing of personally identifiable information. These are specific legal terms that depend on the context in which the data is collected and used, not just broadly any data anywhere that might have something to do with a person.
GDPR is aimed at companies building user databases, not allowing them to completely ignore security, accuracy, user complaints, and sell anything to anybody while lying about it. It doesn't limit individual people's personal use of data.
GDPR doesn’t mention “personally identifiable information” once; it’s concerned with personal data, which is “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)”.
The rest is correct: the restrictions are aimed at organisations, not individuals.
"If your CCTV system captures images of people outside the boundary of your private domestic property – for example, from neighbours’ homes or gardens, shared spaces, or from public areas – then the GDPR and the DPA will apply to you. You will need to ensure your use of CCTV complies with these laws. If you do not comply with your data protection obligations you may be subject to appropriate regulatory action by the ICO, as well as potential legal action by affected individuals."
You, as an individual, have data protection obligations, if your ring doorbell captures audio/video about someone outside your property boundaries. The apple translation service seems analogous.
The ICO is pretty zealous though in this regard. To quote recital 18:[1]
This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity.
GDPR does covers individual's use of eg Ring doorbells insofar as recording video and audio outside of your own property. This would seem to be analogous.
GDPR is aimed at protecting _individual's_ personal information, irrespective of what or who is collecting or processing it.
The three eras of database systems starts with a client-server Postgres, but missed the daddy of the generation before that - xBase (ie dBase, FoxPro etc).
It goes way before that. It starts with IDS (Integrated Data Store) from GE (1964), which was a network database system. Next was IBM's hierarchical database system IMS (Information Management System, 1966), still in use today. Then the CODASYL model (late 1960s), which was an effort to standardize the network model. And then Codd came up with the relational model in the early 70s, upon which an explosion of database systems were built (first is IBM System R, SQL, Oracle, DB2, Ingres). Then came the PC-based database systems you mentioned.
Generally they buy companies which have been pumped with steroids (VC money). That have a good product with active customers but have unsustainable cash flow.
They cut expenses, whether thats moving labor from silicon valley to europe, cloud hosting costs out of aws, etc.
Nothing new - happens in every other industry all the time. Usually companies get themselves into some sort of cult thinking so that only someone from outside can make the turnaround work.
Nobody already working at a company and promoted from within is going to suggest moving the all the staff to Milan for example.
Doesn't necessarily seem like the worst thing in the world - especially if you can get some vertical integrations and already have a bunch of active users.
> It's theoretical Productivity Porn written by a student (check the about me page) who Wants To Be Remembered For Something.
I wish I'd known that before I read tfa, and then the two-part essay on How to Choose a Life Partner. This guy writes well and all, and I'm sure he means well, but he's about 20 years old. I don't need life advice from someone so inevitably inexperienced.
I'd never heard of him and now I hear flags across the US will be at-half mast. He's was a billionaire-sponsored influencer if I understand it correctly?
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