After experiencing the initial wave of revulsion at the idea like everyone else, I did think about what these might actually be good for. And the answer is PR events. The elite are always creating the future they want, they have all the resources and all the power and can actually do so. And in that future they want photographs of them looking beautiful and powerful and hobnobbing with other beautiful and powerful people to exist, but without all of the side baggage that goes along with that — either from the media asking them occasionally-inconvenient questions, or from those pesky photographers who are always asking them to stand a certain way. It's quite distracting! Surely the computer can retouch the image!

And they are right. It can. So what if the image winds up looking processed and plastic? So are they.

Ok racist.

Don't worry, soon we won't be able to afford to buy cars

They are smart enough to know an ID law when they see one

This isn't a lot of data. I know someone with half this in their personal Plex library.

So: why no local copy in addition to the cloud copy?

Fires or other natural disasters destroying the building and the data with it?

These drones are used for things which affect ordinary people so we'll be paying for them as part of our purchases and taxes.

The judge is ordering equivalence.

Because a raspi can do the job they are presumably doing with it. There's no need for this class of hardware unless you're really incompetent.

Oh wait, we're talking about Russia...

Lolol of course they can. The data doesn't actually belong to the intermediary and it certainly doesn't belong to iron mountain. It's good that they required a court order, because the party requesting the data is not the party that provided it, but it's still the PBS station's data and they still have a right to it.

Companies used to make a profit by selling things people wanted to buy

It might have been due to use of an automated tool which imports PDFs to text

They made their platform mandatory, that's tying and it's normally illegal

That free app increases the value of Apple's devices. The developer should be paid, not charged.

Did you miss [reading about] the 1940s?