> making it easier on criminals to find your personal information
This can also work to the victim's benefit: any information publicly accessible from these records is automatically unsuitable for identity theft and the likes. If e.g. a tax ID number is in these records (no idea if that's the case), some company asking for that number to establish authenticity/authorization won't have any ground to stand on if it gets called into question.
That said it's probably possible to make inferences, i.e. knowing what company someone works for might make it possible to guess security questions (e.g. "what was your first boss' name?")
Social security number is public information as well and it's never used for authentication so you're right. You normally identify yourself using BankID, which is issued by your bank and tied to your phone.
Identity theft is still possible but requires much more intricate methods.
I don't know if this is going to help you answer your questions but here is some background information:
1. In Sweden you must be registered at an address for all purposes (taxes, health care, official communications, etc.).
2. On websites like MrKoll's, all you need is a phone number to find someone's home address (you can also find someone's phone number using their home address).
Based on these two facts, all the bomber planning the attack needs is a phone number to find out the address. If the victim is using a burner phone (which, by the way, have become illegal in Sweden since 2023, now all "kontantkort" or anonymous simcards can't be anonymous, they have to be registered to someone's name, and you can only do that with a valid ID), they can otherwise target one of their family members.
> Where is the evidence that the bombers used a data broker to find their target
The writing is on the wall. This is a free service. Why wouldn't they?
> removing this information from the public would have changed anything?
The problem is that these companies (like MrKoll there are others) are abusing the media license they have been granted, not only violating rights that have been well established in the EU (which Sweden is a part of) but also they are making an already vulnerable population even more vulnerable.
Grandmas and Granpas are being targeted by scammers with all sorts of schemes, and where do they get phone numbers and also a quick profile of the target? via these websites.
So yeah, removing this information from the public would change something, perhaps not necessarily to the gang wars, but for sure for the safety of the public in general (gang family members would be harder to find).
> > Where is the evidence that the bombers used a data broker to find their target
> The writing is on the wall. This is a free service. Why wouldn't they?
Did they use information at the library to learn how to build the bombs? That's a free service. Why wouldn't they?
Let's shut the libraries down too. Only people with enough money to buy books, and to pay for street informants, should be able to bomb other people. It'll cost you, what, $100 to have someone trail someone else home? There's no way a bomber could afford that.
Now with my tongue out of my cheek - if the bombers knew who to target because some of the gang members grew up on the same neighborhood so knew where the relatives lived, then making this information private wouldn't change a thing.
A site dedicated to strong privacy laws should use strong arguments to support its claims, not a mischaracterized third-hand (a Guardian writer describing Swedish news reports about police and neighbor statements) news report that may actually have nothing to do with the topic.
Didn't most countries have phone books where peoples names, phone numbers and some times address would be listed? And weren't those phone books usually quite complete? Were they opt in then so that phone book sales people asked you to list your number? (Swedish phonebooks were opt-out). Were you offered any kind of compensation then for allowing your number/address to be listed there?
Let me be clear. These websites list your full name, date of birth, main address (including the exact apartment number if you live in a flat), your flatmates if any, the size of your apartment, and the average salary in your neighbourhood. Comparing this to a phonebook entry is a bit of a stretch. Also, obviously, you only appeared in the phonebook if you had a landline.
I tried googling a bit but I couldn't find quickly enough an article that mentions Rhapsody, the streaming service, as the other party in the trademark dispute.
However, I do remember the whole thing when it happened because I had just discovered the band.
I ride electric unicycles and I have a question about these OneWheels: when you are rolling, the wheel self balances, right? And when you are reaching the power limitations of the board, does it let you know of this in any way?
The EUC will either tiltback (the wheel will literally stop you from leaning even more, so you are forced to lean man) or it will beep very loudly for several seconds, before it finally cuts off either because you fried the board or because the wheel is protecting itself.
It has a very obvious pushback effect. I haven’t ridden an EUC, but I suspect the difference is you only have part of each foot as leverage to counteract it, so the device can more easily counteract the rider trying to push through it. Turn the rider sideways with each point of contact about a foot out from center, combined with a much smaller tire and lower wattage motor, and it’s easy for the rider to counteract it all the way to the system’s limit.
Then again I’ve seen videos of EUCs doing nearly double the top speed of a Onewheel.
It’s all relative to the rider’s ability and willingness to continue stomping the accelerator as it increases in resistance.
It has a tilt back feedback. However it is possible to miss it and there is not much buffer after you hit the feedback point.
I believe they just released a new firmware along with this recall and they have added something new. Might be vibration or sound but I can't remember exactly what.
Yes that’s correct, the firmware update is to provide haptic feedback by modulating the motor to cause vibration. It sounds like a great idea, hopefully it works well.
The idea of sound + vibration notice of porential power related shutoff was requested openly and repeatedly at least since 2019.
If this is such an innovative and important feature, there is no reasonable way to explain why it took the company so long to release it.
Here’s the announce copy from their email on the update:
“Today we're releasing an innovative new safety feature called "Haptic Buzz". Haptic Buzz is an audible and tacti e alert that riders hear and feel when nearing the operational limits of the board.
Haptic Buzz provides riders with additional feedback that is immediate and intuitive so they can ride with more confidence than ever.”
Sounds like a great improvement. I just installed it on my GT, looking forward to trying it out.
If you have more technical details I’m interested to understand how it works. In the distant past I started my career in a power electronics research lab, building motor drive systems among other things, so a deep dive into HapticBuzz would be amazing.
Agrgrgr I'm angry. Gandi got recently bought and people were saying that it was just a matter of time before they would pull something like this. Your predictions were right and I hate that I'm in this position now.
I'm reading the messages of people saying that they had paid for their domains like 10 years in advance but they are going to have to start paying for their mailboxes, which is a breach of contract.
If they are talking about an individual cell with a nominal voltage of 3.7V, then "any" modern fast charger will do.
I don't think they were talking about a full-blown EV power bank.