There was real time video surveillance of the building, both external/internal by Dutch and another unnamed European agency. Also RT published the names of the two officers who controlled the G2 account: Sergei Afanasyev, GRU Deputy Chief and Grigoriy Viktorovich Molchanov, Head of the GRU Academy.
> Also RT published the names of the two officers who controlled the G2 account: Sergei Afanasyev, GRU Deputy Chief and Grigoriy Viktorovich Molchanov, Head of the GRU Academy.
It's surprising that RT published those. I thought it was an entity controlled by the Russian government. Why would it be publishing the names of its own officers when supposedly the said officers went out of their way to appear Romanian and not Russian.
Those other people are HMD Gobal. They are in essence Nokia's former employees who worked in the Mobile phone division. When Nokia sold the mobile division to Microsoft most of those employees, management, sales, marketing, design and engineering went to Microsoft. Subsequently when Microsoft shutdown the old Nokia mobile division those now ex Nokia, ex Microsoft staff started HMD. It's literally based across the road from their original office's in the Nokia HQ. For the most part it is Nokia, just with a different name and different ownership but same design and engineering principles.
HMD Gobal. Building 2, Nokia Campus, Karaportti, 02610 Espoo, Finland.
One of the most “interesting” parts of GDPR is that it delegates enforcement to ~25 member countries.
This leads to the situation where the interpretations can vary greatly from country to country. We might see a very pro business Irish agency saying one thing and the Danish saying another.
Remains to be seen if that will lead to compliance shopping like in some finance regimes or if every enforcement group will get to come after every firm.
ECJ already ruled against the UK on this issue and because they did Tom Watson was able to apply to the UK courts (CoA) for a review of the legislation.
Competition lowers costs in most industries, especially in markets with a low barrier to entry. In 1956, fridge would have cost the equivalent of $3000[1]. Now, it's down to a few hundred of dollars, completely because competition spurred the creation of technological and manufacturing advances, driving the price down.
The issue here is that some industries, particularly industries with a high barrier to entry and low returns due to existing competition, are incredibly difficult to enter. The internet service provider industry happens to be one of those industries that form monopolies.
I think you just summed up the political plan laid by Newt Gingrich in the 1980's when he brought the religious movements into the GOP and executed his 'Contract with America'. It was a plan of domination by all means necessary.
