Probably, but that doesn't sell $650 phones

I like the privacy aspect "it's not a camera, it doesn't take picture"

It does send millimetre waves though, could that mean we could hack Soli to view through clothes ? Like a full-body scanner works ?

> voicemail could be an opt out thing

You usually can turn it off I think. One of my colleagues' greeting states that you should _not_ leave a message, followed by 2 minutes of silence, to put off all but the most committed.

What GDPR says about this is:

> [A]n identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

I think the principle is that since an IP address could be used to identify you, it is considered personal data.

Reasonable. Come back in a year I guess, see if it's better. Firefox on Linux is night and day from the last time I used it

The overriding principle is normally about driving to the conditions, not achieving a "target" speed.

What we should've done is made browser vendors add EU cookie consent instead of every. single. website.

Then I can configure my browser for Always/Never/Ask or whatever.

That would've been too simple, of course.

Well, if you look in the options you'll find Firefox actually does have an option whether to accept all cookies, only first party, no cookies or always ask. Chrome also has an option to deny all cookies, third party cookies or accept all (no ask here).

Is it still only Safari that has the "from websites I visit" option? That's the most sensible one to me.

Does that mean same-domain? That basically meets the EU requirement for most tracking systems I think (where they're third party that is).

"Accept the session cookie but not the Google Analytics one."

It means it will accept cookies for other domains if you have visited the other domain explicitly before. This makes things like embedded widgets work.

Ah see, that's the opposite of what I'd want, personally at least.

The whole point imo of blocking cookies for privacy reasons is so that things like that can't track me around the web - explicitly visited or not.

Firefox got rid of the always ask option in version 44.

Plus, you still have to support plaintext between the EMV chip and the reader. This opens an entirely new class of places to steal card details (like PINs)

One reason for this is that it's at the discretion of the issuing bank whether or not to accept an expired card (in fact, you can get into trouble for handling this locally with some processors).

I believe it's a convenience thing for the end user, when issuing a new card - offer a couple of days "grace" - and arguably there isn't much risk associated with this practice: lost/stolen cards are always cancelled immediately.

> I'm not really sure how measurements are done in big buildings (maybe someone could explain?).

Similar to klodolph - it's very common in the UK for each dwelling in a shared building to have its own supply, termination point and meter for both electricity and gas.