Re: Legality
It collects contact data in that it remembers the data you fill into address forms. That's usually your contact details.
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That is a fundamental misunderstanding of two factor authentication. The idea is that you authenticate with a separate device. Not the same one. If someone steals my laptop and they need my phone to authenticate, that is more secure than credentials stored in TPM, thereby accessible to a logged in single device.
As a developer working in the Web sphere, I'm really happy at the reduction in rendering engines, they are never implemented perfectly, which is understandable, but that means various workarounds for each browser when a customer reports a bug. They don't want the browser maker to fix it, they want you to fix it now.
I'm not entirely sure why you think an SME can afford to be offline for any amount of time. Particularly if they are a Web based SME snd it's not just an ad on website. That is their whole business offline. Also, you assume a simple switch over to a cold server, what about DB replication, how does that server have an up to date copy of the data being written into the hot server? All of this stuff can be sorted, sure, but not by someone running a solution on a couple of PCs
Well that's in your opinion, personally I'll be replacing the phone either way long before the battery needs replacing, so I'd prefer it be as thin and small as possible with the largest capacity battery possible without any compromise to make it reoveable. So I'm totally against this mandate from the EU altogether.
Whenever I hear a company talking about "culture", all I hear is brainwashing. Nobody truly believes in a companies culture, they just keep their mouths shut and nod their heads in agreement while thinking, yea sure. If companies really believe their employees embrace their designated company culture they are just fooling themselves.
Also, how do they actually know its easier to get people to believe in a company culture from the office? How have they found out less people follow their culture while at home? How have they even measured how many believed in the culture while in the office?
Given the employees, collectively, have the power, they really should just not go back in.
You do, but it's a relatively rubber stamped process. Even individuals have easily managed to get high court seizure orders on large companies. The high court enforcement officers just turn up at the head office and they either pay or they take things out of the office worth enough at likely auction sale value.
If you have a Samsung phone, just install the apps into the secure folder instead of the main phone. It will only have access to what else is in your secure folder. Just make sure when anyone us going to check, you already have the app open and don't go searching into the secure folder in front of them.
OK, so given this has been brought in to stop waste. If what you are saying happens, which obviously it will have to eventually. All new devices will have to follow the new standard and everyone that buys any new device will throw their cable away. How on earth does it stop waste?
You say that people will only throw it away when their device is no longer required, that's exactly what happens now. I've never needed to buy a different cable spec for the same device in its lifetime. Once two, maybe 3 standards are in force, you'll have devices of different ages snd again, different cables for all of them, that you throw away when you buy the new standard device.
It will either block innovation or it won't work at all. If they agree new standards due to improvements, once all the manufacturers switch over (imagine how long that will take to get through EU legislation) then everyone will throw their charging cables away again to adopt the new enforced standard. Either the tech never improves, or the waste continues. Just, at the behest of the EU instead.