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European cookies notices have been a nightmare. We may finally wake up from her

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It was supposed to “accept cookies” would facilitate life. He is actually doing us lose 575 million hours a year. Cookies consent banners have become a Absolute nightmare For Internet users, but the European Commission (CE) is rethinking its regulations. Let’s cross fingers. What happened. A note sent to a discussion group of the European Commission was sent on September 15. This document, filtered by politician, reveals that the EC is considering how Modify cookies regulations in force so that it is much less annoying and intrusive to users. The browser can take care of it. There are apparently two options on the table. One, including more exceptions that would make cookies consent banners appear only on certain websites and situations. The other, even more interesting, is to ensure that each user could establish universal preferences through the browser to apply automatically every time they visit a website. That would not have to accept or reject them all suddenly, or select which cookies we accept or reject every time we visit a site, but do it transparent and instantaneously. A little history. In 2002 the European Union launched A directive on the privacy of electronic communications. This regulation required user consent for the use of cookies. In 2009 a law called E-Privacy Directive to force websites to achieve user consent before loading those cookies on their devices. The demand It was consolidated in May 2018 with the activation of the General Data Protection Regulations (RGPD) of the European Union. Good intentions turned into nightmare. Although the measure was well intentioned and was aimed at protecting the rights and privacy of Internet users, its implementation has converted it in something unbearable that makes the experience of insufferable web navigation. As Peter Craddock, Keller and Heckman’s lawyer, “too consent basically kills consent.” Or what is the same: The remedy is worse than the disease. Plans. This hell is now one of the key points of a European strategy to simplify the regulation that affects technology. Commission officials want to present an “omnibus” text in December in which many of the current regulations would be relieved. There was a previous attempt. In 2017 There was a proposal For an electronic privacy regulation that theoretically was going to simplify these cookies consent notices. However, the petition was abandoned in February of this year because the proposal was too complex and covered from online advertising to national security. THE GDPR TO RESCUE. A way to partially solve the problem would be Integrate that regulation of cookies within the general regulation of data protection (RGPD or GDPR for its acronym in English). This regulation adopts a more flexible philosophy based on risks, so that cookies banners theoretically apply only to a subset of the websites visiting users. In Xataka | You thought to be navigating in unknown and erasing cookies on your Android mobile. Goal I saw everything you did

What are they, how these notices are configured and how android are configured

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Let’s explain What are they and how to configure Google earthquake alertsa security system that you can configure on Android. In this way, if there were an earthquake near where you live you will have an extra notice of Google itself beyond that you can send the institutions of your country. We are going to start this article explaining what this type of Android mobile notices work. Then, we will briefly explain how you can access your configuration to verify that they are notified. What are alerts for earthquakes and how This type of alerts is part of the Google seismic detection system, Shakealert. It is a system that uses a series of seismic sensors in some parts, but also Telephones of the users themselves to detect earthquake movements. One of the sensors that is present in all mobiles is the accelerometer, which is used to detect its movement in several applications and functions. Android also uses this sensor to detect movement changes that can be interpreted as an earthquake for its internal algorithms. When your mobile detects this type of movements, He sends a signal to Google servers. When it does, Google has internal systems that combine your information with which other phones in the area send, and thus try to find out if an earthquake is taking place in that area. In the event that Google detects that there are indeed many mobiles by sending this type of warning signals in specific areas, and that it seems to be an earthquake, then Send an alert to Android users through a notification. The alerts that are sent can be in two ways, depending on the intensity of the detected earthquake. If it is 4.5 degrees in MMI scale (No Richter) or higher, then a strong sound alarm is sent that ignores the ways of not disturbing, and turns on the screen of your mobile. In the case of being somewhat lower, then a normal notification is sent. How to configure these alerts To check if you have this function activated, you have to go to the settings of your Android mobile. Inside, click on the section Personal Security and Emergencies That will appear almost down at all. Once here inside, click on the option of Seíncos alert. With this, you can verify that these alerts are activated, and that you will receive them in the event that an event is detected near you. Here, remember that the configuration can be somewhere else or have another name depending on the manufacturer of your mobile. Therefore, you can use the settings search engine and look for words We are either earthquakeand the adjustments used by these terms will be located without having to look for them by hand. In Xataka Basics | National Alert Network Viewer (RAN): What is and how it works to see weather or earthquakes notices

Aemet indicates that we will touch the 43rd to orange notices for storms

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In Sunday afternoon, locations such as Morón de la Frontera (Sevilla) or Montoro (Córdoba) saw their thermometers to place On the edge of the 43rd Celsius. Although high temperatures are not going to disappear so quickly, the phenomenon that experts are now worried is A week of change. Meteorologists foresee A new change Meteorological this week, one that will not only bring us a drop in temperatures: the models warn of the arrival of storms that could be intense. As if that were not enough, hail could also make an appearance. What is happening? Since the end of last month, the meteorological sway was marked by the succession of several dorsal and a trough. The former brought us atmospheric stability and high temperatures, the last one brought us rainfall and a brief relief of heat. However, the fresco is not going to bring a new trough, Experts warn: It will be an isolated depression at high levels, a Dana. Although it is expected that as of today the storms begin to demonstrate in the north, the effects of this Dana will be especially notorious in Galicia from the day of Tuesday. From heat to storms. According to The forecasts From the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet), the storms will have the probability of being strong and arriving accompanied by both hail and “very strong” gusts in some areas of the plateau, Eastern Betic System and in the Iberian South. The agency has activated various notices For storms in these areas, oranges in the case of the province of Teruel for “very strong hail probability and very strong wind gusts.” On Wednesday, “strong” storms are also expected in the northern half, with probable showers in western Galicia, Cantabrian environment, Alto Ebro, the Iberian and the Pyrenees. Aemet storm notices will be activated in most of the Peninsular Northern area, with orange notices in areas of the Basque Country and Catalonia. Not far from 40º. Despite the decrease in temperatures, storms will coexist with heat. So much so that weather notices for rains and storms will coexist these days with notices due to extreme temperatures above 37º. Aemet has also activated An orange alert on Tuesday on the Ebro banks in Zaragoza due to maximum temperatures of up to 39º. In Xataka | The time of truth of the Spanish reservoirs: how are they going to endure the heat after rains that has left them overflowing Image | ECMWF

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