In my eyes some blame does lie with them. A systematic failure is a failure of many parts. An employee taking notice and following bad instructions is one of them.

I don’t know what information they had, but if they were at the point of intending to share, it seems like whistleblowing would have been the just and moral thing to do even if it means ignoring immediate authoritative structure.

I don’t see how it’s certain loss of job when you could whistleblow without revealing your identity.

Did they make contracts with them?

Well, there’s news about them being the replacement. So, no, they won’t.

I’m not too familiar with the specifics, but didn’t they put their foot down about just two safeguards? Sure, it’s having a spine, but I have to wonder if the line they draw isn’t a bit too far either way.

They’re not. Standard lying and propaganda that they do. You can’t trust in anything they say, in any reasoning they claim.

Germans with a website: well, it’s in clear text in the Impressum already, required by law

Those two safeguards they deny to remove must be quite the thing.

Pretty sure this is about desktop. Mobile doesn’t have the same kind of features, if at all. Does Mobile have anything else besides local translation?

Regarding security cameras, you can’t point your private security camera of your property. If you put it above your entrance, you can’t point it to record the entire street.

Afaik anyway.

Parking spaces or business must visibly disclose that there’s cameras, at least where they would not be generally expected. I’m not too sure about the specifics there though.

There’s a difference between taking a picture of a person and taking a picture of scenery or event with a person in it in Germany.

It’s a subtle but significant difference. And relevant when talking about do you have to expect for your picture to be taken. You may not care when your in the background or not identifiable but at the same time care when someone knows you and takes photography of you, or takes photos of you where you’re the main focus of the image.

There’s a distinction between whether they will be published or are for private use too.

I’m not the other commenter, and it’s not all encompassing, but I’ll link this one here for DE https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild_(Deutschland)

Proofreading with adjustments?

It’s really sad how prevalent it is.

I think it depends a lot on the games, communities, and moderation, though.

In my games, at least, I wouldn’t say I see much toxicity, even when it can feel different because of its impact. When I do see toxicity, I consistently report and block.

In all my years, I think I can count misogyny in my games (towards others I overhear) on one hand. Which, of course, doesn’t invalidate those who have different experiences. Many women choose not to talk at all because of these issues, which makes it less likely for other people to experience and see such occurrences.

I find more recent developments interesting where people can change their voice to male and female, which allows people to talk with their voice, but not be identifiable as one or the other. Hopefully it can enable people and make them more comfortable.

I watched this in a YouTube Shorts format a week ago, where they ask a few models about walking or driving to the car wash.

They have some more funny ask AI shorts.

I didn’t read their comment as defensive at all. Their comment ended not in defense but in questioning your original claim/original assessment. The sentence before that serves as reasoning for that.

an exposed MongoDB database containing nearly 1 terabyte of personally identifiable information (PII) exposing approximately a billion sensitive records across 26 countries.

Not even a hack. Pure incompetence and negligence.

It’s not about recent tech, it’s about historical territorial claims, and broader territorial strategy. Of course, while ignoring history/historic context at the same time.

China claiming Taiwan is its territory and threatening invasion, the regular military “training exercises”, even including the specific goal of Taiwan landing operations, and continuous hybrid attacks for years already, like invasion of Taiwan waters with fishing vessels, and cyber attacks, and you’re sitting here claiming China isn’t a country that would invade others. What do you make of these kinds of activities, then?

The what-aboutism deflection doesn’t work very well on an international comment section, either.

Did they, though?