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A Paris court on Thursday ordered Twitter to change its smallprint, according to a consumer group which accused the tech giant of having "abusive" clauses in its terms and conditions.
UFC-Que Choisir claimed victory in its case against the US social media platform, saying "the conviction has a gigantic scope for the protection of users' personal data". The consumer association had called on the high court "to recognise the abusive or illegal nature" of 256 clauses contained in Twitter's terms and conditions that it said breached users' privacy.
In particular, UFC-Que Choisir said the court's decision guarantees Twitter users that their photos and tweets can no longer be "commercially exploited" if they have not given their consent. "By ticking a small box to accept the terms of service, the consumer has not expressly accepted their data can be exploited," the group said.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 11 2018, @10:31PM (2 children)
Signoffs (2/2)
janrinok 08-11 13:10:05 saved
Fnord666 08-11 14:45:49 updated
Only 1 signoff (i.e. saving the story) is required to get it onto the front page. 2 signoffs is what we shoot for as a minimum. It's a guideline. All of today's stories currently have that except for the JPEG Blockchain one.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20 2018, @01:05AM (1 child)
Thank you for the information and explanation. Is there a guideline discouraging editors from posting the stories they themselves have submitted? Apart from the stories submitted through the Arthur T Knackerbracket account, I notice that stories submitted by an editor are almost always posted by a different editor. It appears that way, at any rate. When someone submits a story, then two different editors look at it, it’s been seen by three people before it’s posted. That is a mark of quality. When an editor submits a story through an alternate account, then that same editor approves it, then a second editor signs off, the story has only been seen by two people. The quality might suffer. It would be nice if the readers could see more readily whether a summary has been received the attentions of one, two or three people.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday August 20 2018, @01:44AM
Editors are definitely encouraged not to post their own submissions. The usual exception is Breaking News stories which ought to go out as fast as possible to be relevant and end up getting edited to add new info.
I'm not sure how Knackerbracket works. I think it passively collects stories from RSS feeds or IRC and then someone "releases the floodgates" to throw a few of them in to the sub list. janrinok or bytram could probably tell you more. Plenty of the Knackerbracket subs are dumb or dupes, but we usually get rid of them.
Editors can typically figure out what constitutes a good story (at least in our opinion). We've seen it all (t h o u s a n d s of subs), and we know what's liked, hated, controversial, etc. I'd say quality suffers when we're lazy, tired, or the sub list runs low (or low + full of political crap).
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