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A court in the Netherlands ruled this month that a grandmother must remove pictures of her grandchildren from her social media accounts after her daughter filed a privacy complaint.
The grandmother, according to a Gelderland District Court summary, has not been in contact with her daughter for more than a year due to a family argument.
Her daughter has three minor children who appear in pictures the grandmother posted to social media accounts on Facebook and Pinterest. In February, the daughter wrote to her mother, noting that her requests made via the police to remove the photos of her children from social media have been ignored and giving her mother until March 5 to comply or face legal action.
After the grandmother failed to take the photos down, the mother took her complaint to court.
The Dutch implementation of Europe's General Data Protection Act requires that anyone posting photos of minors obtain consent from their legal guardians.
When the court took up the matter in April, the grandmother had removed photos, except for one from Facebook. She wanted that one picture, of the grandson she had cared for from April 2012 through April 2019 while the boy and his father, separated from the mother, lived with her.
The father in the instance of the Facebook image also did not consent to the publication of the image.
[...] Accordingly, the judge gave the grandmother ten days to remove the picture. If it isn't not removed by then, a fine of €50.00 (£45, $55) will be imposed each day the images remain in place, up to a maximum of €1,000 (£900, $1,095).
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2020, @11:16PM (18 children)
Your comparison is shit because you don't understand how the Orwellian world worked. The superpowers deliberately didn't develop the technology to do automated spying. They deliberately employed a human secret police force because doing so kept people employed. The alternative is the utterly fucked up world we live in right now where people like me spend an entire lifetime coding from age 5 onward and earn advanced degrees in computer science and still never ever find a coding job. And I continue coding even though I will never earn a cent from it because the jobs just don't exist. Make no fucking mistake: I am a fucking prole. In a world of thought police I would still be trolling the motherfucking shit out of you because nothing I do matters no matter what I do. Remember: animals and proles are free. Or do you remember? Did you ever even read Nineteen Eighty Four?
In Nineteen Eighty Four the human secret police force was a government jobs program and it worked very well to keep people busy spying on each other. In the real world the billionaires are doing jack shit fucking nothing to create jobs and instead are getting themselves elected so they can tell everyone to wear a facemask and die poor.
So really, did you ever even read Nineteen Eighty Four or you one of those moronic idiots who think you know things without reading?
FUCK MDC
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @12:11AM (12 children)
No, you are an idiot. Maybe you should stop coding, and get a real job? Evidently, you are not very good at coding, or you would have had a job by now. Or do you have personality traits that make you unemployable? Strong body odor or excessive flatuousness? Assburger's level of social inappropriatude?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Mykl on Monday May 25 2020, @01:09AM (5 children)
Knowing how to code does not make you a develop. You also need to:
This just off the top of my head. There would be more, but I'm outta time
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @01:21AM (2 children)
Knowing how to code does not make you a developer. You also need to:
1. Suck a lot of cock.
2. Suck more cock.
3. Suck a whole lotta cock.
4. Suck cock.
Michael David Crawford was a really good cocksucker for real. We are diminished by his passing.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @04:57AM
The jealousy is real.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Mykl on Monday May 25 2020, @06:53AM
Your views on working constructively with others says everything we need to know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:33AM (1 child)
So many corporations are inept and will discriminate against you for any random reason, even if you can do the job perfectly well. Don't forget about that.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:46AM
Corporations are built on lies told to investors. Don't forget about that. Lying about hiring makes corporations look more successful than they are, then duped investors invest, making perception into reality. Too bad about all those losing applicants who get processed and rejected as corporations go through the motions of pretending to hire with no intention of hiring anyone.
Fuck MDC
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @01:16AM (5 children)
I don't buy your blatant lie that coding jobs even exist. If I'm such a bad coder as you claim, why was I the one correcting the obvious coding mistakes made by the teaching assistants in college, how did I earn A grades in computer science classes, and how did I graduate with honors? How did I manage to go on to do original research in computer science and earn an advanced degree? How have I been contributing working useful code to open source projects for years? Why is it that when I list my achievements on a resume, I get constant praise and zero job offers?
No, the problem here is if I, a natural born coder who is so passionate about coding that I continue to code personal projects after years upon years of rejection and after applying for thousands upon thousands of advertised job openings, cannot ever find even one low paying crap job in your tech industry, then your entire tech industry is based upon obvious fraud. There are no jobs. The jobs do not exist. Every job posting is fraudulent. The jobs are fake.
Understand this. You cannot lie to me. I have enough experience of your fake job market to know your fake jobs are fake. I have the high GPA and the earned degrees and the years of open source contribution to prove I am not the problem. Your tech industry is the problem.
Lying turds like the thankfully departed piece of shit Michael David Crawford are the problem. He knew Soggy Jobs was a fake job board. I only wish he had died of COVID-19 during the Great Lockdown when the absence of jobs is well known so his fraud would have been obvious even to deluded morons as stupid as you.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @01:43AM (2 children)
I don't know about your coding, but atleast your attitude sucks. Dude you need to chill.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:37AM (1 child)
Dudebro, I was plenty chill when I was naive enough to believe jobs exist. Since the jobs very obviously don't exist, this is the fucking attitude that you fucking deserve to fucking get for fucking lying to me my entire fucking life.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @05:32AM
Prime candidate for UBI right here. Would let this person relax for a while without worrying about a job, maybe enough to calm the fuck down.
There are not infinite jobs, the american dream was a lie, and coding jobs require a lot of experience with specific tools. Sorry it has been hard for you, maybe explore something else you probably consider beneath you.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday May 25 2020, @01:53AM
"I don't buy your blatant lie that coding jobs even exist."
There are tons of coding jobs, in the sense that there are tons of folks pulling down regular paychecks paying a bunch of bills and nesting with the cash all around the world to do things that can (with sufficient charity) be called coding.
This is objectively verifiable.
Now for the most part this is potlach, they're writing re-implementations of code that already existed, while adding little if anything of value and often losing value in the process, in order to become more buzzword compliant or more conformant with the current monetization strategy.
That shit is not really doing a job as in getting needed work done expeditiously, which is how I prefer to read it as a working man.
So maybe that latter is what you really meant here?
"If I'm such a bad coder as you claim, why was I the one correcting the obvious coding mistakes made by the teaching assistants in college, how did I earn A grades in computer science classes, and how did I graduate with honors? How did I manage to go on to do original research in computer science and earn an advanced degree? How have I been contributing working useful code to open source projects for years?"
It's possible that your competition was just consistently awful? ;)
"Why is it that when I list my achievements on a resume, I get constant praise and zero job offers?"
Now that's a more interesting and potentially helpful question, but without your resumé and some context it's hard to even hazard a guess.
"No, the problem here is if I, a natural born coder who is so passionate about coding that I continue to code personal projects after years upon years of rejection and after applying for thousands upon thousands of advertised job openings, cannot ever find even one low paying crap job in your tech industry, then your entire tech industry is based upon obvious fraud."
Well, doh. It's based on /layers/ of fraud. It's like a freaking onion at this point.
But the fraud isn't that jobs don't exist. It's that those jobs are just as dumbed down and outsourced as possible, and then another 20% at least. The fraud is that these jobs are administered by corporations that have no understanding of them, beyond numbers on a payroll spreadsheet.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:58AM
Have you tried being a mensch?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Arik on Monday May 25 2020, @12:35AM (4 children)
That's a reasonable backport, though I doubt it's historically accurate.
"The alternative is the utterly fucked up world we live in right now where people like me spend an entire lifetime coding from age 5 onward and earn advanced degrees in computer science and still never ever find a coding job."
Your own circumstances may be to some degree tragic, but can in no way serve as shorthand for how truly fucked up this world is for many others.
Why do you expect a 'coding job?'
"And I continue coding even though I will never earn a cent from it because the jobs just don't exist."
See? There don't need to be any coding jobs for you to code. And ideally one should code for the good of humanity, not to make a quick buck by being a tool anyway.
"Make no fucking mistake: I am a fucking prole."
You and I both, tovarisch.
"In a world of thought police I would still be trolling the motherfucking shit out of you because nothing I do matters no matter what I do."
So you're Emo?
"Remember: animals and proles are free. Or do you remember? Did you ever even read Nineteen Eighty Four?"
Nineteen Eighty-Four I first read in 1982 or thereabouts, and I've read it dozens of times at least.
Animal Farm was in some ways better and I probably didn't read that until about 1984, but again I've read it cover to cover several times.
George Orwell wrote many other things that were worth the read as well as these; on his experiences in Catalonia and Burma for example.
I've always thought of him as a bit of a UK version of Mark Twain. An author well worth reading.
But dystopian literature goes far beyond Orwell.
Remember Wells and his Morlocks? How about Kafka's Trial? Zamyatin's We became Rand's We the Living became Anthem. Huxley's Brave New World? Heinlein's If this goes on?
Anthony Burgess should be on the list too. Have you read 1985?
Don't play this game with me, it won't go well for you.
"In Nineteen Eighty Four the human secret police force was a government jobs program and it worked very well to keep people busy spying on each other. In the real world the billionaires are doing jack shit fucking nothing to create jobs and instead are getting themselves elected so they can tell everyone to wear a facemask and die poor."
It's worse than that though. Behind the facade of the bots running everywhere, teenagers in third world countries earning minimum wage have been recruited to do the job, because the bots /still/ aren't up to it.
Oh yeah. That's the truth. It's even worse than you thought.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @12:47AM (2 children)
The troll can regurgitate a whole rant just on this bit alone.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday May 25 2020, @12:54AM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @01:11AM
No, I just want to see that ~beautiful~ FOSS rant.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by EEMac on Monday May 25 2020, @02:48PM
>> "Your comparison is shit because you don't understand how the Orwellian world worked. The superpowers deliberately didn't develop the technology to do automated spying. They deliberately employed a human secret police force because doing so kept people employed."
> That's a reasonable backport, though I doubt it's historically accurate.
Describing this as a backport was AWESOME.