Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.
GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.
Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.
If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re using third-party co…
Balancing Compliance and Privacy in Offline CBDC Transactions Using a Secure Element-based System
Panagiotis Michalopoulos, Anthony Mack, Cameron Clark, Linus Chen, Johannes Sedlmeir, Andreas Veneris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25469
Lettuce Financial, which offers an accounting, payroll, benefits, and tax compliance service for one-person businesses, raised $28M led by Zeev (Elaine Pofeldt/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepo…
I appreciate that replies are pointing out cookie banners are a form of malicious compliance by the adtech industry while also giving a history of Do Not Track headers and that the same industry killed them:
https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443
In June 2025, the Trump administration pressured University of Virginia (UVA) president James Ryan to resign,
threatening to withdraw federal funding due to an alleged lack of compliance with civil rights law.
Like other elite higher education institutions such as Harvard,Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and many others targeted by the Trump administration,
UVA capitulated to the coercive authority and dictatorial weaponization of civil rights law.
UVA buckled …
That's curious: A newish paper suggesting an 'ai.txt' (similar to robots.txt) to manage server interactions with ai bots: Li et al. (2025). ai.txt: A Domain-Specific Language for Guiding AI Interactions with the Internet (No. arXiv:2505.07834). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.0783…
@… @… Som det er skrevet, kan man næsten kun gå ud fra at de direkte er sure over at skulle opgive denne information.
Det læser jo som malicious compliance hele vejen 😅
SafeEvalAgent: Toward Agentic and Self-Evolving Safety Evaluation of LLMs
Yixu Wang, Xin Wang, Yang Yao, Xinyuan Li, Yan Teng, Xingjun Ma, Yingchun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26100
Lawyer: Vegas boss legally sold rifle to NY shooter https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45875367/casino-supervisor-rifle-sale-nyc-gunman-complied-state-federal-law
Moscow sets conditions for negotiations: Why does compliance mean capitulation? | Explainer: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/30/moscow-sets-conditions-for-negotiations.html