Based on the article text, it’s only citing things like how long you play. I thought most games collected telemetry like this?

A commonplace travesty is still a travesty and metadata is still data. If my hairdresser asked me “Hey, in addition to me cutting your hair and you giving me money I’d also like you to constantly keep me updated on your sleep schedule, your vacation plans, marital status changes and the myriad of other things that can be directly gleaned from aggregate timeline data - all the other hairdressers have started doing it as well!”, I’d likely look at them incredulously for a few seconds while silently imagining stabbing them with their own scissors.

Calling it “telemetry” has somehow normalized it over the past decades, I suppose? I just don’t understand how anyone could ever accept this as normal.

I don’t know but that’s what the post you were replying to stated and you just ignored it.

I do tend to ignore posts that come without references or explanations, that’s true.
But that’s beside the point I was raising - I’ll rephrase: I find it hard to believe that there is anything two Middle European kids vacationing in Hawaii could ever do to even remotely approach any sane definition of ‘working without a permit’ to warrant immediate deportation. Whether they did or didn’t actually intend to defraud the Federal Government over 20$ in beach bar tip money taxes doesn’t really factor into that argument, does it?

It seems like themselves admitted that they intended to work?

In what capacity?

It seems like a bit of a stretch to frame two teenagers wishing to go island-hopping as part of their post-graduation world trip as “intending to work” 😜

Deportation appears to be about as appropriate here as sending the SWAT team after someone who dropped a candy wrapper.

No country wants to become Libanon 2.0.

What does that mean?

but because of GDPR we still have to rely on printing papers, and sending them to other clinics via post or fax

I don’t know who told you this but that is certainly not mandated by GDPR. Could you elaborate on the situation?

All my patients expect me to have ready up on their medical history, and know what medications they take, so that I am up to date about what they need. But in order to do that, I first have to ask for their permission, and THEN open their journal. It has to be the other way around - that you can actively block healthcare personnel from reading your journal if you for some reason don’t want them to.

That is also not mandated by GDPR. I don’t know who you DPO is, but at some point of the communication chain there must be a misunderstanding.

have you ever had to deal with GDPR? It is a nightmare and I am certain American big tech is secretly celebrating it, because it kills any European startup alternatives, because they cannot afford to employ enough people to be compliant with the law and if they try to do it with existing personnel they don’t have enough time left over to actually run their business

Am DPO. What do you mean? GDPR is trivial to deal with and you do not need to employ additional personnel beyond a DPO. They don’t even have to do it full time.

There are certain few business models that explicitly rely on exploiting personal data, but them being slowed down is very much the intention.