I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
David Pakman Show has to fend off a vendor that seems to want him to violate state privacy laws as well as GDPR
David Pakman (of the David Pakman Show in Boston)
described his being approached by one of his service providers that David’s
show needed to switch other aspects of his operation to a particular company or
be cut off completely from this provider.
From David’s description, it sounds as though the new
company would have tracked personal information of visitors much more
aggressively (probably with persistent identifiers) to sell more ads.
The arrangement would have violated the EU GDPR but
not US privacy law.But from David’s
description, it does sound as though it could have caused his operation to
violate California’s CCPA based on viewers or visitors from the state earning
him revenue, and laws like CCPA are likely to be enacted in more states in
2020.
David said no, and will apparently take some hit on
revenue starting in 2020 to protect his visitor base.
This whole tactic reminds me of controversy over the DOJ proposed gutting of the Paramount Consent Decree in the movie and theatrical distribution business (see Movies blog today). Adam Schwartz has an article for Electronic Frontier Foundation that speaks favorably for California CCPA, but it seems there will be more details to iron out in 2020 as to how websites and YouTube channels could be affected. Also, I've noticed one or more Wordpress sites even without ads throwing cookie warnings at visitors the first time, and here is one pluginthat can do this. I'll look into whether I need the plugin or a similar one on my Wordpress sites.
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