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Richard Gutjahr
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Richard Gutjahr writes G! gutjahrs blog, a personal blog at gutjahr.biz about politics and writing. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this German-language blog as the original source for stories on Facebook's claims to user data, and for the WeTab boss's fake Amazon reviews. Commenters cite it for facts rather than praising the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
Laws maybe, though these are set at the EU level (and one might argue about the greatness of GDPR). Still, the rest of the EU (or at least Germany) is quite unhappy with the enforcement of these laws in Ireland. It is absurd that the Irish Data Protection Commissioner is supposed to control the privacy of most larger tech corporations for the whole EU. A few years ago, they only had 22 employees and their only offic…
Comment linking /2012/07/facebook-eu-datenschutz/
on “Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings”Submitted European laws are copied line-by-line from lobbyists? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe source article at http://gutjahr.biz/blog/2011/09/face-off/ (in German) says (via Google translate): For example, information on the recently discussed ... "likes" that Facebook assigns to individuals, but also very delicate process information such as their biometric data collected by the activated facial recognition this year from Facebook. It doesn't seem to be the original source, either. My guess is that th…
Comment linking /blog/2011/09/face-off/
on “Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Intellectual Property'”He used his own Amazon account and his real name was visible on the Amazon Wishlist. And, even more funny, his wife did the same thing. Here's the original blog entry (in German, scroll down for some screenshots): http://gutjahr.biz/blog/2010/10/wedepp/
Comment linking /blog/2010/10/wedepp/
on “WeTab boss caught posting fake 5-star Amazon reviews, resigns”