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  • So this is pretty good.

    https://measuredcollective.com/is-google-forms-gdpr-compliant/

    It’s a list of things you need to do in order to make the use of Google forms gdpr compliant.

    One thing they don’t touch on is the use of personal accounts to collect data. People tend to use Google forms because it’s easy to set up using their personal account, but that essentially removes any company oversight from the collection and data processing. This makes it much harder to satisfy the data controller requirements.

    Of course if it’s an external contractor gathering the data and processing it independently, your company is likely to dismiss all this as not their problem.

    If it’s real academic research it will have had to go through ethics approval, and this should include data handling, and gdpr compliance.





  • Yeah, there’s two problems with this.

    1. Congress is non-functional and can’t act as a check on the executive branch or the courts. In the past they’ve passed fuck you laws where they initially passed a law saying X, the supreme court interpreted it to say Y and then they passed a clearer version of X. This hasn’t happened in a long time.
    2. The supreme court likes to reinterpret the constitution. This means if you want to correct the supreme courts interpretation you have to pass a constitutional amendment. Even if Congress functioned properly this would be difficult.

    The idea we’re talking about wouldn’t work anyway. The problem is, many of the state supreme court judges are also batshit.

    The only way round this is to copy other countries that have functional judicial systems and stop making judges either political appointments or directly elected. They need to be professionals selected on merit, and firable, or at least replaceable after a term, if they’re incompetent.










  • You know what’s even better? Proportional representation and an executive branch that answers directly to your elected parliament.

    Ranked choice or STV just means you continue to vote against Republicans and hope for the second worst option of Democrats, but you can feel better about yourself because you put a left-wing party down as your first choice.

    STV should only be used for figurehead positions with no real power.


  • If the data is present but difficult to restore, it’s annoying. You might need to spend a few days fixing stuff.

    If the data is gone, it’s devastating and can bankrupt a company. On a personal level it’s the same as having all your photos destroyed in a fire. And backups not containing the right data are very common.