You're likening the ability of apple/Google to see devices moving around in Ukraine to someone figuring out who you are because you have a DAB radio transmitting an SSID and a MAC address - that only people within a hundred or so metres can see.
Again, I bring you back to the test laid out by the EDPB. For indirect identifiers like this to be considered personal data you have to consider the technical ability and the liklihood of someone converting that indirect identifier into something that actually identifies you as a natural person.
As a thought experiment I'll concede that you might have a point. But in the real world, I don't believe you do. You mention a stalker - a stalker isn't going to find you by driving around using a WiFi scanner looking for a DAB radio. It just isn't a realistic scenario which is something a data protection authority would need to consider as well.
I agree MAC addresses can be personal data - if it can be linked in some way.
So a mobile phone? Sure - it links to you through subscriber info etc.
A router? Sure - links to you via your ISP (although im both cases technically it links to the person paying the bills)
But a DAB radio? Like others have said, unless you registered it under your name then its MAC is not linked to you.
We then go back to the tests of whether it actually is personal data, and one of those tests is whether a person can determine who you are by taking reasonable steps and also whether they are likely to try.
In both cases, in the real world the answer is arguably no.
You're making lots of assumptions and leaps about Google. Like anyone else all they can do is map SSID to a general locality. They still dont know who you are based on that single piece of information.
The question is - is an SSID personal data.
No. It isnt.
Is a MAC? Potentially but only to a very specific and small number of entities. And then as I said for it to be personal data the link between that device and you has to be realistically and reasonably likely to occur.
Like I said, you've already decided you're correct and this is a breach. I look forward to reading the result of your court case against Karcher in 3 years time, so don't forget to come back and let us know how you get on
Fuck Off Ben you pitiful wanker.
Seriously you're a beggar. Hand outstretched every chance you get.
A private citizen hounded to death by the media.
If it could happen to him it could happen to any of us
People saying "woke" to describe things they don't like is brilliant.
It means you know immediately whether or not someone is a moron and so makes it easy to avoid them
I agree completely. What the Swedes are doing is cruel and if we did the same thing (I bet we do) I'd be unhappy.
Forget xenophobia, it seems like there's just a wave of cruelty for the sake of cruelty at the moment.
"Illegal overstayer who requires 24/7 care costing thousands of £ each week at taxpayer expense to be deported".
Equivalent Daily Mail headline if this was about the same thing happening here.
That aside, things like this are the harsh reality of brexit. Why would we expect Sweden to keep looking after him if we wouldn't do the same?
"If I go you go".
Fucking idiot probably didn't realise he was on a different plane
For that particular licence yeah. But if you come back and start watching TV again...watch yourself
I was considering getting BF6 when it went to half price.
Then EA got bought by Kushner. So nope.
I'm 43 and have been married for nearly 20 years. We are the old people now
I bought Windows 11 pro from a cd key reseller for like £5....
In the UK its called the Limitations Act 1980.
You cannot sue someone or enforce a debt 6 years after the event in question.
I replaced mine a few months ago.
I've kept it just in case.
Meanwhile at home he has army avenger (AA) vehicles on his golf greens just in case.
You'd think someone so near the end would just accept it.
I'm hoping she gets disbarred soon for launching a blatantly political malicious prosecution against an innocent man.
The way the right wing media are trying to paint this as being even remotely similar to Farage's £5m "unconditional" gift is disgusting.
He was arrested for causing a disturbance. You'd be arrested for the same thing if you acted like a dickhead at a school or in a police station.
I suspect he was probably asked to stop by hospital staff and he refused, hence the fine
It's all a bit thin mate.
You're likening the ability of apple/Google to see devices moving around in Ukraine to someone figuring out who you are because you have a DAB radio transmitting an SSID and a MAC address - that only people within a hundred or so metres can see.
Again, I bring you back to the test laid out by the EDPB. For indirect identifiers like this to be considered personal data you have to consider the technical ability and the liklihood of someone converting that indirect identifier into something that actually identifies you as a natural person.
As a thought experiment I'll concede that you might have a point. But in the real world, I don't believe you do. You mention a stalker - a stalker isn't going to find you by driving around using a WiFi scanner looking for a DAB radio. It just isn't a realistic scenario which is something a data protection authority would need to consider as well.
I agree MAC addresses can be personal data - if it can be linked in some way.
So a mobile phone? Sure - it links to you through subscriber info etc.
A router? Sure - links to you via your ISP (although im both cases technically it links to the person paying the bills)
But a DAB radio? Like others have said, unless you registered it under your name then its MAC is not linked to you.
We then go back to the tests of whether it actually is personal data, and one of those tests is whether a person can determine who you are by taking reasonable steps and also whether they are likely to try.
In both cases, in the real world the answer is arguably no.
Americans that's why
You're making lots of assumptions and leaps about Google. Like anyone else all they can do is map SSID to a general locality. They still dont know who you are based on that single piece of information.
The question is - is an SSID personal data.
No. It isnt.
Is a MAC? Potentially but only to a very specific and small number of entities. And then as I said for it to be personal data the link between that device and you has to be realistically and reasonably likely to occur.
Like I said, you've already decided you're correct and this is a breach. I look forward to reading the result of your court case against Karcher in 3 years time, so don't forget to come back and let us know how you get on