Certainly!
Even as late as the early 2000's, a corporations software 'phoning home' without the users knowledge (and explicit consent) was a minor scandal and a real privacy concern. Now such behaviour is so commonplace, it is unremarkable.
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Even as late as the early 2000's, a corporations software 'phoning home' without the users knowledge (and explicit consent) was a minor scandal and a real privacy concern. Now such behaviour is so commonplace, it is unremarkable.
An honourable mention to RAF Bradwell.
One of the nearest to the coast, it had more than it's fair share of shot up aircraft returning from raids and crash-landing..... and consequently, has the most bizarre war memorial.
Or maybe just providing free high quality heath care to all its citizens?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba ; The World Bank acknowledges that Cuba's life expectancy at birth exceeds that of the United States
Time was, if a neighbour insisted on daily filming a family entering and leaving their own home, they would have been given a smack in the mouth for being a nosy bastard.
Quite how recording your neighbours has become socially acceptable I will never understand.
(And the privacy conscious segment of the US market.)
There is no excuse for VCs not getting up to speed on the GDPR.
Since El Reg's increasing focus on the US market, their sense of humor (note the lack of a U), and what made them 'different' from the rest, has been in terminal decline.....
Though we will always have Paris. [1]
[1] A common snarky reference on Reg comment boards, referring to the removal of the Paris Hilton icon. A change that was no doubt made to avoid offending US lawyers.
I think you will find the French rather famously did away with their aristocracy.