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Covid testing company "selling customers' DNA"

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  1. RNG
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    When buying tests, customers were asked to tick a box agreeing to a 4,876 [word] privacy policy which links to a separate document outlining the research programme, The Sunday Times reported.

    6 votes
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    Bullmaestro
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    I truly think that the ICO won't do much to stop them, maybe at best slap them with a six figure fine. They're honestly quite toothless as far as regulators go.

    I truly think that the ICO won't do much to stop them, maybe at best slap them with a six figure fine. They're honestly quite toothless as far as regulators go.

    1 vote
    1. noble_pleb
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      If this were Europe, would GDPR help prevent this?

      If this were Europe, would GDPR help prevent this?

      2 votes
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      cfabbro
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      If someone deleted their comment and it had no replies, it leaves no "comment deleted by author" mark. It's only when there is a reply that it does. This is recursive too, so if all the comments...

      If someone deleted their comment and it had no replies, it leaves no "comment deleted by author" mark. It's only when there is a reply that it does. This is recursive too, so if all the comments in a thread are eventually deleted by their authors then all traces of the entire thread will be removed. You can test this yourself by replying to yourself multiple times then deleting those comments.

      AFAIK, admin removal always leaves a mark though.

      2 votes
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          cfabbro
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          Eh... it doesn't really require "coordination" in any meaningful sense. I have often deleted my replies when I notice the person I replied to did as well so as not to clutter up the topic. And...

          Eh... it doesn't really require "coordination" in any meaningful sense. I have often deleted my replies when I notice the person I replied to did as well so as not to clutter up the topic.

          And it's also possible this isn't the same topic you were thinking of either. :P

          2 votes
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            You know, on closer inspection of the contents of my head I realize it isn't. My bad lol

            You know, on closer inspection of the contents of my head I realize it isn't. My bad lol

            1 vote