Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 60

This is the page they're 'linking' from the radio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/GlWjcqtLYhbmlFGz69HNn6/local-privacy

They don't actually read out that URI on air, thank goodness, it's a redirect from bbc.co.uk/localradioprivacy

On the radio: "text BBC Radio Leeds on 81333. Before texting, see our privacy notice at www.bbc.co.uk..."

Seriously? #GDPR notices are on the *radio* now?

@ghost_bird I take part in an online community site called MetaFilter that's long been US-dominated.

Quite a few people over there got their knickers in a twist on the weekend of the royal wedding - they wanted to squee over fancy hats and the few British members were like "wait, there are actual issues to discuss here". The site moderator banned negative discussion on the topic.

A lot of (but not all) Americans see the rest of the world as a) a threat or b) a laugh.

@ghost_bird Most of the really slimy anti-privacy stuff that's been done online over the past few years has come out of US tech companies. I think they just have different ideas about data than the rest of us.

@ghost_bird I wonder what on earth they were doing before that means they have to completely switch off their website now... ?!

This is what you now get if you try and read the Chicago Tribune from the EU. Well done, everybody.

http://www.tronc.com/gdpr/chicagotribune.com/

@dajbelshaw I think the 0.1% GDP rise is bad news to be buried. I know GDP is a fairly duff indicator of how we're doing as a nation, but it is an indicator of economic trends and in comparison with our friends and neighbours, we're doing badly.

@vmatekole I tend not to shop in very cheap places, because I know that the way they get very low prices is to pay workers minimum and nickel-and-dime them, skirt around animal welfare and hygiene laws (for food places), and so on.

I can go and buy a box of frozen beef burgers from a supermarket here for 1 GBP, but what are you going to get? The very worst quality produced and sold by exploited workers.

I would literally rather pay more and know it's decent.

@quad @sim @rice It is the same in the UK, particularly in the public sector. It's Microsoft or nothing.

Even Oracle - Oracle! - has a significant grip on some parts of public sector IT here, especially in the NHS. It's very much based around which companies were able to take which bosses out to dinner.

@david_ross It is a relatively common turn of phrase in north west England :)

@vmatekole I'm the same. If I look at an item for sale, for example on eBay, and it:
- costs less with free postage than the postage would cost me
- costs less than it costs to buy direct from the supplier

Then I am automatically suspicious of the business and assume it is running some sort of scam.

@vmatekole Nothing wrong with putting up prices - if your business isn't washing its face, what's the point? There's no point in being cheap and then going bust.

I recently upped my prices to take into account increased costs from my end, and my sales went up. There is a subset of consumer who is suspicious of amazingly low prices and wants to pay more for good service.

Irish radio this morning talking about sunny weather and highs of 23 degrees and I'm looking out of the window at the pissing rain.

Who turned the universe backwards?

@david_ross Thanks for the link, I'd never seen it before! It looks like Opera collects all sorts of stuff - name, IP address, location, and does unspecified things with it.

Goodness knows why a browser maker needs all this data - perhaps it's something to do with Opera basically being Chrome with a wig on at this point.

@dajbelshaw My least favourite is the "please please please please don't let this be goodbye" faux-emotional variety.

@dajbelshaw My favourite genre of #GDPR email has to be the "giving ourselves a pat on the back" variety - we're complying with the law, aren't we amazing and benevolent?

Thoughts today with our friends in #Ireland who have had to go through another vicious referendum battle to obtain basic rights over their bodies and lives. Good luck to all. 🇮🇪

https://social.coop/media/y9ZQhar9QMfJOaTZSho

@david_ross Opera made me accept new terms and conditions before opening their browser this morning...

@cute_weeds I own at least one fence. That makes me fancy in New Zealand