Under Article 80, the GDPR foresees that non-profit organizations can take action or represent users.
Emphasis mine. Just in case anyone is still denying that Euro-English is a thing. It provides for it, which implies it anticipats it, so if we get rid of unnecessary Romance it foresees it. Plans for, as Wikipedia puts it, but not only the French etymology (prevoir) works, there’s also German vorhersehen/vorsehen which collapse when you calque them into English. Gives Brits all kinds of headaches, they were writing lots of huffy memos before Brexit.
I mean, there’s Scottish English (inb4 someone tells me about Glaswegian being different than $idk), American English etc, so Euro-English might be a tad broad but I’m sure it exists.
And then there’s German English which a lot of my older coworkers seem to excel at… “Ja, also, as you see, ve have here not a problem anymore, ja, and ze dropped calls are removed from this node, okeh?” (real quote from a regional manager)
Max Schrems and his team have done a lot of good regarding user rights in the face of giants like meta. I’m pretty sure that at least a handful of Meta employees regulary have nightmares because of NOYB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOYB in case anyone else was wondering.
I’d never heard of them before but it looks like they have a pretty good history of holding corps accountable.
Emphasis mine. Just in case anyone is still denying that Euro-English is a thing. It provides for it, which implies it anticipats it, so if we get rid of unnecessary Romance it foresees it. Plans for, as Wikipedia puts it, but not only the French etymology (prevoir) works, there’s also German vorhersehen/vorsehen which collapse when you calque them into English. Gives Brits all kinds of headaches, they were writing lots of huffy memos before Brexit.
I mean, there’s Scottish English (inb4 someone tells me about Glaswegian being different than $idk), American English etc, so Euro-English might be a tad broad but I’m sure it exists.
And then there’s German English which a lot of my older coworkers seem to excel at… “Ja, also, as you see, ve have here not a problem anymore, ja, and ze dropped calls are removed from this node, okeh?” (real quote from a regional manager)
Svengelska is likewise a thing here in Sweden
Max Schrems and his team have done a lot of good regarding user rights in the face of giants like meta. I’m pretty sure that at least a handful of Meta employees regulary have nightmares because of NOYB.
They are responsible for getting both “data protection adequacy agreements” for the US thrown out in court (see Max Schrems).