Notices by Mary Branscombe (marypcbuk@hachyderm.io)

@anildash @danhon @Meyerweb I have a theory; there is no mention AT ALL in the post about public health questions and whether the content-seekers feel that conferences are doing enough to make it safe for them (because they likely have a different calculus and risk model from the networkers). nothing about the #PHPledge or masks or even code of conduct safety, or how that plays into the community that an event grows from...

@slothrop it was back at the height of the DNT fiasco and the very beginning of what became GDPR and he was calling it extraterritorial (and fuming about the right to be forgotten); I suggested that it might be a response to the inherent extraterritoriality of the PATRIOT act and got my first "you people" in return ;) https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-dnt-microsoft-the-ftc-and-silicon-valley/

@slothrop "what you people [finger wag] need to understand is that privacy is a speedbump to innovation on the information superhighway": FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director David Vladeck to me at a conference in 2012 (yes, he said information superhighway in 20 freaking 12)