I can't speak for how effective the process is, but this is the idea behind the EU/UK GPSR's Authorised Representative framework - though not exactly local (that would be excessive, since GPSR also applies to much smaller sellers too)

I hope it works better than the EU DSA dispute resolution, which I've heard multiple accounts of youtube just ignoring.

Haha, let me guess, if they're based in Ireland then this enforcement is up to Ireland as well, so it's as toothless as the other digital laws?

Nope.

Regulation of cars , like anything, is expensive. It’s worthwhile for cars for safety reasons, but bikes are cheaper, and also way less dangerous in general, so need a lighter hand.

The current cutoff in EU is probably right, above a certain power level, e bikes are l, broadly, treated an motorcycles (licensing, type approval, insurance etc) , below that and with non-e bikes, is really just about the basics, eg are the wheels firmly attached and do the brakes and lights work?

Counties with effective privacy laws focus on the control and processing of the data.

Regulating data processing like this is common and should not be controversial.

That’s kind of the point of license plates though.

They are there firstly so that when a driver damages something or hurts someone, they can be held responsible. What’s so bad about that?

They can be used to hold anyone responsible for anything I deem wrong. What's so bad about that?

Let's say I'm partnering with flock to track anyone who drives to say, a political convention I disagree with, and basically make your life hell.

Maybe you don't want your employer to know everywhere you go. What's so bad about that?

Or maybe you offended me in public, as long as I record your plate number I can find out your place of residence and employment through the FlockYou app for only $5. After all, people deserve to be held accountable for their actions.

More practically, it’s about if someone hits you or someone you care about with their car or the like.

Aggregation of data like Flock does is a different matter and can be handled separately. Like I mentioned in my other comment, other countries tend not to have things like Flock, since they understand unregulated data processing such as that is problematic for all sorts of reasons; the US is a big , big outlier in this area.

Observe how you have to scroll down past the other senses mentioned to reach this one; dictionaries usually put the common senses first.

People here might not notice - your link is the official client interface for talking to KDB+ processes from Java.

There's a decent chance your broker (or their dealers) are using stuff built on this.

Depends on how decent your friends are… one couple I know in particular, they both love MTB, but have different endurance levels, so with one having an e-bike it evens out nicely.

This is common for corporate investor relations sites.

They serve entirely different audiences and are usually separately managed for the product sites, it’s also common for the latter to be blocked by the companies which are the target audience for the former.

This historic meaning is also the sense of ‘Middle Earth’ in the Tolkien books; for instance The Lord of the Rings is notionally a retelling of the end of the third age in our world long ago, with now being the sixth or seven age.

Outlook’s done this for like a decade? Ditto Apple mail.

I think they do the same with email addresses and phone numbers too, it’s kind of useful and not a big deal.