A ban from one sub. Most people have one if they have spent any amount of time on Reddit. It's not considered circumvention, unless it's used to do actual circumvention of the sub ban, which it wasn't.

Reddit has a corporation in the UK, who are the ones defending this.

Reddit has a subsidiary in the UK. They also claim that their Swiss operation is responsible for data protection in Europe, but I doubt that the court will buy that. It's an attempt to make it harder to exercise GDPR rights, while still doing business in the UK.

Everything is tracked these days. Big data and all that. So they would know how much shoplifting was going on and they would know whether it reduced when the robots were added. And for more obvious incidents like people fighting obviously they would know that because somebody would have had to come to break up the fight.

It's basically just a camera on Wheels and there's not really a lot of value to that. It's just kind of a scary dystopia thing.

Now when we start putting weapons on them yeah and that's coming but that's a little later after Trump gets his third term

I don't think so. Maybe 1 sub, you know what Reddit moderators are like. Actually, yeah, I think it was the doolally lot over on some nuclear power sub. But I blocked it and didn't try to access it - the ban happened before I even had a chance to.

The issue is that Reddit is not complaint with GDPR rules. It's actually bigger than Reddit, because a lot of companies are not compliant because compliance would reveal how their automated systems work.

Reddit explicitly allows multiple accounts: https://support.reddithelp.com...

Reddit, like many companies, relies on having an automated system to process DSARs. You make a request and it shits out a zip file with some data in text formats like XML. Unfortunately that data is incomplete, and doesn't cover anything that isn't available by simply looking at your account page. You also can't get it if the account has been deleted.

Unfortunately the UK's regulator is useless, so legal action is the only way to get this stuff resolved.

Yeah, but at least if I prevail they will have to compensate me for their asshole techbro policies.

I created a throwaway account, as is normal practice on Reddit when you want to ask something without it being tied to your main account, and it was quickly perma banned, and a 7 day ban applied to my main account.

I submitted a DSAR under GDPR rules, and like DF5JT I just got some truncated crap and none of the information I actually wanted.

Currently going through legal action with Reddit over this. In their initial defence they admitted that the ban was automated, and when I appealed a human looked at it and confirmed it. The ban was for being a bot, which obviously I'm not, so they admitted they made a mistake that really human review should have fixed. It appears that they also deleted the data that I asked for, which is a fairly severe GDPR violation. On top of that, they tried to gaslight me about it, for example by showing fake login errors and a fake password reset process, in order to supposedly access the DSAR data, when in fact they had already deleted both the account and data.

Currently waiting for mediation to be scheduled, basically a 1 hour phone session where an intermediary tries to see if there is a way we can settle without it getting to court. Given they have admitted they screwed up, and have deleted the data I asked for, and seem to have a policy of abusing users who submit a DSAR...

That is bad. As an engineer I'd probably want to make the plants able to handle them though, because you can't rely on people not throwing them in the bin.

Ideally there would be some way to recover them. Maybe a recycling scheme where people can collect a small amount for them could work, although these days I think a lot of people are too busy to bother with it for only tens of pennies.

Are you just complaining about the EU having a legally binding goal and giving member states time to get to it, or are you trying to use it as an excuse for the US to do nothing? Less than nothing really, you are paying billions of USD to stop wind farms being built and ramp up pollution from fossil fuels.

Ah, I see. It's really bad that all those perfectly usable batteries are being thrown away, let alone the rest of the electronics.

On the legal side, it's very likely that if the prompt was benign then the company providing AI as a service would be liable.

If it's running locally then it's not clear, but probably the user would be responsible for failing to properly supervise and limit what the AI could do.

Regional restrictions. Google won't let me install some apps I need when travelling, but I can install them just fine from Aptoide, or via Obtainium.

Did they have internet access? TFA isn't clear, but it could be that they were on a VPN connected to MoD systems and the pings just bounced off the firewall.

Sounds like the contractor just used off-the-shelf cameras and they do periodic checks for firmware updates or cloud storage or something. No conspiracy, just a failure to properly specify and then audit the hardware.