Appeal never lodged as far as I can find searching tje Irish high court lists. They lodged appeals against a €90m fine though which started hearing last week, and withdrew an appeal against a 2018 €251m fine

Yeah sorry, €1.2bn was USD $1.3billion at the time and about 1.25bn now, so hardly misleading though.

How about a $1.2 Billion fine ? Would that perhaps be consequential ?

They got hit with that 2 years ago

https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2020/

I just checked, it’s 4% of revenue and apparently Meta has already had a €1.2 Billion fine yes that B is not a typo.

https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2020/

Actually GDPR fines can reach 3% of revenue if i recall my compulsory training correctly. That’s a lot more than $20m for farcebook I would expect

Ok. So I found on announcements at https://community.signalusers.org/ that Signal added obtainium to the download options (due to google delays on releasing through play store). I also got another update notification from Signal app this morning, which went away once I upgraded to the latest version. Could be related ?

I had the same “that’s weird” reaction too. So not just you, would be good to know if it was kosher or a malware. I might have a dig now

I had the same at the same time. I ignored the app request and updated from app store

Yeah illegal stuff and Singapore should never be in the same sentence.

Either move the VPS to being hosted somewhere with no interest in enforcing copyright law (Africa, South America, some parts of Asia like Cambodia, Kazakhstan etc) or put a VPN on the VPS so your IP shows as being somewhere less regulated than SGP

Got the captcha endless wave yesterday using freetube on linux until I changed VPN nodes. I don’t think it’s proxying (not checked though)

Ethernet over hdmi

https://thehometheaterdiy.com/hdmi-with-ethernet/

https://www.cmple.com/learn/learning-center-hdmi-cables-with-ethernet

They can also hijack the connection of a connected box (ethernet over hdmi) or via a connected phone (bluetooth & chromecast iirc)

Sure but who do you make the subject access request to ? Facebook Google Microsoft Amazon etc individually ?