BENTON COUNTY, Wash.-About 500 acres burned west of Paterson after a fire reportedly started by a fish landing on a substation.
Jul 30, 2024 -- BENTON COUNTY, Washington (US)About 500 acres burned west of Paterson after a fire reportedly started by a fish landing on a substation.Fire crews responded to the area of SR 14 around milepost 157 around 10 a.m.According to Scott Hawley, with Benton County Fire District #6, the fire is believed to have been started by sparks when a fish was dropped on the substation by a bird. There is currently no fire burning at this time and no structures are threatened.There is what appears to be some parts of a fish on the substation, according to Hawley, who said that while it is uncommon, it does happen from time to time.
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Under certain conditions, the GDPR applies to companies that are not in Europe. In this article, we’ll explain when and how the GDPR applies outside the EU. The European...
Evidently it somehow is possible for the EU to win such case though, because those mega-companies pay-up.
The less severe infringements could result in a fine of up to €10 million, or 2% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher.
The more serious infringements go against the very principles of the right to privacy and the right to be forgotten that are at the heart of the GDPR. These types of infringements could result in a fine of up to €20 million, or 4% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher.
Earlier this month, a German court fined an unidentified website €100 ($110, £84) for violating EU privacy law by importing a Google-hosted web font.The decision, by Landgericht München's third civil chamber in Munich, found that the website, by including Google-Fonts-hosted font on its pages, passed the unidentified plaintiff's IP address to Google without authorization and without a legitimate reason for doing so. And that violates Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). ..."The defendant violated the plaintiff's right to informational self-determination by forwarding the dynamic IP address to Google when the plaintiff accessed the defendant's website," the ruling says.The ruling directs the website to stop providing IP addresses to Google and threatens the site operator with a fine of €250,000 for each violation, or up to six months in prison, for continued improper use of Google Fonts. ...
without authorization and without a legitimate reason for doing so.
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora:400,700,400italic,700italic
For some time now, website development hasn't really been for amateurs, or even for former "professionals" who struggle to keep abreast of the ongoing changes (like me).
Years ago I blogged by writing HTML in a text editor. Maybe I should go back to that.
This blog began in 1994, long before there was HTTPS.I don't have the time to jump through hoops that Google and the EFF want to force me to jump through.Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules.
