It's true that the GDPR has exemptions for "personal or household activity". Ideally, this should apply to non-commercial Mastodon instances.
However, some non-commercial Mastodon instances are now supporting thousands of users. An argument could be made that operating such instances is no longer a "personal or household activity".
Whilst I would hope that the local data protection agency would side with the Mastodon instance operator, it does put them in a rather difficult situation.
I think this possibility raises a lot of concern for operators of Mastodon instances and other online services.
Not a lawyer too, but I'm interested what makes you (and jbfoo) believe that it doesn't apply to individuals. It's a EU regulation it should apply to natural and legal persons.
Ok, it has an exception for the processing of data by natural persons in the course of a purely personal or household activity but that doesn't mean it doesn't apply to individuals in general.
> Ok, it has an exception for the processing of data by natural persons in the course of a purely personal or household activity but that doesn't mean it doesn't apply to individuals in general.
If you set up a service that operates in the same way as a similar service would operate if it were done by a business then I suspect that you being a private individual is not going to be much protection, after all you are effectively roughly in the same situation as a sole proprietor business minus the incorporation.
If you process data for family and friends then that would most likely be enough to trigger the exception.
So the dividing line in the case of a Mastodon server would likely be whether or not you allow total strangers to make use of the service and whether or not you respect their rights.
Can they? I was under the impression that GDPR does not allow “accept tracking or else pay money”. If it does then that seems like an easy, obvious solution to the problem. So easy and obvious that the fact no one is implementing it makes me suspect it is not actually compliant.
The problem is that you have very short window to migrate to Java 11 (next LTS) with Python there is no such problem as really each release is LTS, so you have three years to migrate from 3.6 to 3.7.
You might use gitlab to clone your github repos. Web interface to clone them is super easy (obviously you can do it from the console also), there is no limit to private repos (their business model seems to be charging
for CI time and selling on-premise licenses).
I'm not affiliated with either hosting services and I use both :)
Well, I guess, one could argument than after losing contact with working class and solidifying their rule, China's ruling class will what every non-democratic regime did --- try to expand territoriality. And they have grudges with Taiwan.
As a programmer I like panoramic screen very much --- I usually have at least two panes with code open next to one each other. My four year laptop has HD screen, which also helps a lot.
I really hope some law enforcement agency will someday classify uber as a: "organized crime group". I don't mean the drivers --- but management is doing absolutely everything to obsruct law enforncement (for example --- making it virtually impossible for transport inspection to call Uber vehicles).
> Against individuals: Unlikely, but it could happen
AFAIK IANAL: GDPR doesn't apply to individuals that e.g. host mastodon instance.