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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Matti Schneider‏ @matti_sg May 31
      Replying to @davelab6 @Louis_Remi and

      Oh. I see. So the website acts as the data processor for Google Fonts that acts as the data controller?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    2. Dave Crossland‏ @davelab6 May 31
      Replying to @matti_sg @Louis_Remi and

      Why would the website be a processor? The data collected by GF isn't distributed to the website for processing...

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. roast potato enthusiast  🥔‏ @BR3NDA May 31
      Replying to @davelab6 @matti_sg and

      This thread is super cryptic for such a simple question.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Matti Schneider‏ @matti_sg May 31
      Replying to @BR3NDA @davelab6 and

      Agreed. Which is what has been consistently reproached on GitHub, and repeats itself here. The only conclusion I can get to is that this is the UD in FUD to cover something shady. Not a surprise, either: Google never liked us to realise GA+CDN+mail+GWT+DNS+… are its sensors.

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    5. Dave Crossland‏ @davelab6 May 31
      Replying to @matti_sg @BR3NDA and

      Let me be clear: I am not a lawyer and I am not offering legal advice on Twitter or GitHub, am I am speaking in a personal capacity.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Matti Schneider‏ @matti_sg May 31
      Replying to @davelab6 @BR3NDA and

      I get that 👍 But then I don't understand why you speak like a company that has something to hide. It's simple to say “as I understand it in my own capacity, Fonts collects that and that, and there's no reason to be concerned”. Your personal & official statements are as cryptic🙁

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    7. Dave Crossland‏ @davelab6 May 31
      Replying to @matti_sg @BR3NDA and

      Kindly, I think the reason you see me as a cipher is A. I'm not going to offer advice, despite the 100s of requests for that, & B. >

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    8. Dave Crossland‏ @davelab6 May 31
      Replying to @davelab6 @matti_sg and

      B. There are people on the GH thread who are calm, and there are (many more) who are vexxed. I hope I'm being not only calm but respectful :) And the calm people are satisfied with the existing official statement, and >

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    9. Dave Crossland‏ @davelab6 May 31
      Replying to @davelab6 @matti_sg and

      they say that clarified the situation for them. Folks who say all CDNs are immoral can't be pleased. Folks who want clarification on the gdpr got it. And folks who don't appear to understand what the official statement said, I'm not sure how to explain it to them.

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    10. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 31
      Replying to @davelab6 @matti_sg and

      But you do understand what Google’s business model is, right? You do know that it makes its money and pays your salary by violating people’s privacy by tracking their behaviour, profiling them, and monetising that intimate insight into their lives.

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 31
      Replying to @aral @davelab6 and

      So the livestock are being told by a factory farm that this specific piece of machinery in the factory isn’t there to farm them. You might see why the livestock appear unconvinced given the raison d’être of the factory farm. #SurveillanceCapitalism

      6:51 PM - 31 May 2018
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        2. Dave Crossland‏ @davelab6 May 31
          Replying to @aral @matti_sg and

          I dedicated the last 10+ years to liberating typography with libre fonts - if you want to self host, feel free; if you want to use http://brick.im , feel free; if you want to live out in the wilderness, feel free - but we are talking about those who WANT to live on pasture

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        3. Dave Crossland‏ @davelab6 May 31
          Replying to @davelab6 @aral and

          We are talking about folks who want to use the API but have some ideas I think are frankly bizarre about gdpr

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