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tossandthrow ◴[] No.43514173[source]
If the machine is less than 2 years old (and you are in eruope) just return it as defect.
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1. ginko ◴[] No.43514253[source]
If OP is in Europe Google could be drawn and quartered for GDPR violations.
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2. hilbert42 ◴[] No.43514307[source]
Exactly!
3. kleiba ◴[] No.43514463[source]
"could" being the point here - as Joe Bloke, you're not going to get yourself into a legal dispute with Google, but it's not very hard to return an electronic device as an ordinary end consumer when it's still under warranty.
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4. nottorp ◴[] No.43514488[source]
You don't need to sue Google, just file a complaint with whatever the GDPR authority is in your country ...
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5. zazazache ◴[] No.43514516{3}[source]
Better to just contact NOYB directly, they are responsible for about 50% of all GDPR fines to date. Outside of Norway the DPAs seem mostly useless, especially when it comes to big tech…
6. dgellow ◴[] No.43514810[source]
Anyone can submit a complaint: https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-role-supervis...
7. kleiba ◴[] No.43514818{3}[source]
I'd be interested to know if anyone on HN has actually done that in the past, and what the experience was?
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8. mardifoufs ◴[] No.43515368[source]
GPDR forbids local OCR? Can you be more specific
9. Matthyze ◴[] No.43516061[source]
That's not how the GDPR works. Just like criminal procedure, subjects do not sue alleged offenders themselves. The state instead sues on their behalf.
10. robin_reala ◴[] No.43516725{4}[source]
Confiks managed to get Spotify to reinstate the API that allowed connections to SongShift with a GDPR complaint about the right to data portability (or threat thereof): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371