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Comment Re:Golly that kettle is dark! (Score 3, Insightful) 77

The colonies fought a war to ensure that the USA is not subject to the jurisdiction of the UK. The UK may not regulate US entities without the consent of the US government

That's a non-sequitur. The USA is not subject to the jurisdiction of the UK, but US citizens physically in the UK are, and companies based in the US but doing business in the UK have to comply with UK law as it affects their operations in the UK or accept the corresponding penalties as the cost of doing business there.

Comment Re:So this is all way over my head (Score 1) 97

The one I'm most interested in is the Hadamard conjecture. So far all we've had is a dump of some matrices at sizes which were previously open. This is an area where some people were putting in some effort, although it's a while since the last progress - in 2004, a couple of researchers published a solution for size 428. What we really want is to know (a) how exactly these new matrices were found: was it just throwing lots of computational power at known approaches or is there a new idea? And (b) is there a proof of the conjecture or just some gap-filling in the databases of known sizes with solutions?

Comment Re:I wonder whether that is just the US version (Score 4, Informative) 160

GDPR, Article 4, clause 2, my emphasis:

‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

So your premise is in direct contradiction with the letter of the law.

Comment Re:This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 1) 314

The situation with Guantanamo Bay is also clearly unconstitutional. It's right there in the word "constitution": that document defines how the nation-state (or confederation, if you prefer the legal fiction that the individual states are nation-states) is made up, what it consists of. The essence of the nation-state is geographically invariant: what varies with geography is how much authority it has to impose its essence. The argument that the US constitution doesn't bind the actions of the US outside its formal borders is nonsense, and to apply that argument to a place which is undeniably de facto under US jurisdiction is enhanced nonsense.

Comment "Policing" Is Doing a Lof of Heavy Lifting Here (Score 4, Insightful) 57

"It is clear Flock has aspirations far beyond ALPRs to become a digital platform for policing," [emphasis mine]

They misspelled, "Orwellian suveillance and harrassment."

Law enforcement officers are already abusing Flock's existing capabilities for stalking. This will not improve matters one iota.

Comment Re:We'll see (Score 1) 36

That street is a public space, and there are myriad laws and court cases allowing that to be photographed or otherwise recorded.

New legislation supersedes old legislation and jurisprudence unless that old legislation (respectively, the legislation the old jurisprudence is based on) is more binding (e.g. the constitution). Maybe it's time to start pressuring for new legislation which explicitly recognises an expectation of a certain level of privacy even in public spaces. There are places where your business' security camera isn't allowed to see the street in front of it: I live in one, although it's not in the USA.

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