'Entire Country Taken For A Ride, You Shut Eyes For 2 Years!': Supreme Court Pulls Up Union Govt For Inaction On Patanjali Ayurved Ads
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (February 27) expressed displeasure at the Union Government for not taking action under the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act 1954 in respect of the advertisements of Patanjali Ayurved claiming cure for several ailments.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft have decided to use all of your communications to train their AI, including social networks and your private emails.
According to Europe #GPDR, California #CCPA and Sealand #ROT13 act, you may opt out.
In order to opt out, copy/paste this message on your profile on social networks and send it to all your mail contacts. On Mastodon, you can also reboost this.
Doing a #CCPA "right to access" data request at data broker Equifax.
They respond by sending me a "text file with very long lines" that has a .png (image!) file extension. This means most people won't be able to open it; Firefox surely says the file is corrupted.
Happens to everybody, right, when programming text downloads that they accidentally give them .png extensions, and QA doesn't catch it???!?
"Our records indicate that in 2022, Equifax received a Right to Know request from you under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Due to a technology issue, which has been resolved, the Right to Know request was not processed successfully."
ActivityPub question: what’s the best way to attach a #GDPR Article 21 objection and/or a #CCPA opt out of sale to my activity on here? (If #bigtech shows up, better to be protected in advance)
Reddit can restore your deleted posts. However, if people flood them with GDPR / CCPA delete requests, they may become liable for lawsuits if they don't comply....
After deleting my account I also went and did a California Consumer Privacy Act request. Their process was to authenticate and do the CCPA request over this web form. http://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Since I already deleted my account, there was no way for me to do the CCPA request and I ended up contacting them.
Reddit ended up reactivating my account and they made me go through the web form. This takes 30 days and in the end I should have a link that I can download the data that they know about me. I might do another update. (The process was smooth, kudos to Reddit)
In the mean while, I went and deleted everything I can in my account. These include: Posts, Comments, Messages, Friends (sorry). (Since I was suspended for no reason, I couldn’t change up/down votes.) I used Power Delete Suite Bookmarklet for this: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Since I wrote the request anyway, I also created a CCPA and GDPR request template for anyone to use, you can see it here. If you are a California or EU citizen feel free to use them. https://github.com/emresaglam/CCPA-GDPR_request_letter
I was worried that I would miss Reddit, but I didn't. This was probably the most pleasantly surprising part of getting rid of Reddit :)
[REPOST] How to Delete your Reddit Account and All Data under GDPR/CCPA (thomashunter.name)
This was posted some weeks ago, but I feel it might be useful for many folks these days, so reposting the link here.
Flood Reddit with GDPR / CCPA delete requests
Reddit can restore your deleted posts. However, if people flood them with GDPR / CCPA delete requests, they may become liable for lawsuits if they don't comply....