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New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:41:35 +0000

I'll just clear my cookies, change my VPN exit and continue posting. What's the point?

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:52:58 +0000

But that information isn’t public, it’s only visible to law enforcement.

This is how company ownership information should be treated too.

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:27:33 +0000

Because the Guardian says so.

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:22:17 +0000

This is a solved problem, you can simply refuse to work with charities that don’t share such information.

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:21:33 +0000

So? The name of that person doesn’t need to be public for the courts to be able to hold them accountable.

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:33:16 +0000

I really can’t see how your interest in not doing business with companies owned by people you like could possibly outweigh every business owners privacy interests.

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:47:13 +0000

When an individual has registered a car and is enjoying the right to operate a 6000 lbs death machine on public roads, why do they need their name hidden? What value in the society of granting them that privilege when they are enjoying legal protections and privileges not enjoyed by all members of society?

The real question you have to answer is “Why is it necessary for company ownership to be public information?”

> A service address isn't sufficient to, for example, easily piece together that one private owner has quietly purchased 70% of some town's resources, especially if they've done so via a collection of shells

What’s wrong here? Even with a perfect UBO registry that private owner could just get together with a couple of their buddies and divvy up that 70%.

What legal action are you going to take? Owning 70% of a town’s resources is generally not against the law.

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:43:19 +0000

Not at all. A company could be a one man shop which only does business with one other company, it’s not obvious why that would be more of a public activity than just being directly employed by a company.

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:58:34 +0000

Most companies probably do not own resources like land.

What actual use do you have for this information? Beyond “it’s nice to know”?

Is it not sufficient that you have a service address for the legal entity in case you need to sue it?

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:57:04 +0000

Why is it any more of a public activity than working for a company?

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:53:57 +0000

People do not start companies in Dubai instead of the EU because of paperwork, Dubai is particularly paperwork heavy (especially if you need a local bank account).

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:50:29 +0000

> Why should business owners be anonymous?

Why not? Generally EU countries do not like public lists of PII, why should business owners be treated differently?

What legitimate use do you have for this information?

New comment by prvit in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:52:39 +0000

I’ll offer a different take here.

More than 99% of the people whose information is listed in these registries are not corrupt public officials, Russian oligarchs, or [insert person you dislike here].

Public UBO registries do not strike a good balance between protecting the privacy of honest business owners and exposing corruption or whatever.

New comment by prvit in "Jeffrey Epstein documents to be unsealed, potentially revealing acquaintances"

prvit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:41:23 +0000

Because there is no “client list”.

New comment by prvit in "Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You"

prvit — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:04:17 +0000

Go on https://www.rtings.com/ and buy any decent OLED TV. Solves this problem entirely.

HDR can help if you’re watching HDR content, which most new content is starting to be.

New comment by prvit in "Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap"

prvit — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:40:12 +0000

I didn’t forget what I wrote, I just exist in the real world where missiles are a bigger threat than hackers.

New comment by prvit in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"

prvit — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:17:08 +0000

These are criminals, they can install microsoft office and create fake proof of purchase.

Completely pointless idea.

New comment by prvit in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"

prvit — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:15:39 +0000

> They aren't suffering more than poor.

But they are suffering more than they would if given the ability to post bail.

New comment by prvit in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"

prvit — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:17:59 +0000

> So what you are basically saying is that poor people should suffer more for committing the same crime as someone rich.

Do you believe that rich people should suffer more because poor people can’t afford bail?

If you break a leg, should everyone else have their legs broken too? That’d be fair, right?

New comment by prvit in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"

prvit — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 06:18:51 +0000

> the expectation is that they apply reasonable effort to doing so, including demonstrating a response to publicly known incidents of crime rings operating on their site.

Again, rule of law. Reasonable effort is to do nothing unless they have information that would make a reasonable person believe that the specific goods were stolen.

There’s no expectation that Amazon would investigate the providence of the goods they receive.

> Edit: This is at least the second time you've minimized an important piece of context: the problem is that they're accepting stolen goods, with multiple municipalities repeatedly warning them about it.

No, I’m not. Amazon receives unimaginable amounts of goods, of which only a vanishingly small fraction is stolen goods.

> Treating that as a "scale" issue doesn't wave the crime away, any more than throughput at a meatpacking factory would be a defense for the occasional employee being caught in the slaughter line.

Are you serious? Surely the odds of an employee ever getting caught in the slaughter line must be greater than zero?

Surely you understand that if we were to infinitely scale the meatpacking factory, we’d be essentially guaranteed to see employees get chopped up.